Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.
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The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.
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Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
