Lukas Foss Quotes

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Lukas Foss

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
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• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

  

  Fanny Howe
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• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

  

  Gail Godwin
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• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
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• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  

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• The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.

  

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• It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

  

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Work
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• I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Life
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  • Music

• As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Decision
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• There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Interesting
  • Identity