Lukas Foss Quotes
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.
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Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
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That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
