Lesley Garrett Quotes
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
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Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.
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One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
