Les Baxter Quotes

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • She
  • Age
  • Add

• The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Like
  • Son
  • Angel

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Black
  • Sex

• Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Period

• Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Money
  • Game

• I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • She
  • High

• What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing

• Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!

  

  Augustus

• It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • People
  • Calm

• Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

  

  Amy Hill
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Drama

• If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.

  

  David Brewster
  • God
  • Science
  • Faith

• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

  

  David Korten

• Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

  

  Les Baxter