Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Too clever is dumb.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
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La flor que tienes en tus manos ha nacido hoy y ya tiene tu edad.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
