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 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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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.
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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act
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I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.
