Arthur Sullivan Quotes
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
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Better to die than to live in fear.
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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
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In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
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The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
