Lou Harrison Quotes
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
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I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
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The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
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Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.
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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
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I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.
