Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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We must not turn away when we hear the cries of the hungry. We must not stand by when we see the killing and terrorizing of the innocent. We should not wait until hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of our fellow human beings have died as occurred in Afghanistan, before we act.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
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Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
