Kevin Rollins Quotes
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
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When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
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I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
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I believe that one-product wonders come and go.
