Edward Blake Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.'
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
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Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...
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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
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I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
