Arturo O'Farrill Quotes
I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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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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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can test my own kids without human subject permission, so they pilot - I pilot my ideas on them. And so it is a tremendous advantage to have kids if you're going to be a developmental psychologist.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
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People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.
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I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.
