Cy Coleman Quotes
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
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Nobody scares me.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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'Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.'
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Ernest Mtunzi, Former UK Representative of Joshua Nkomo.
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
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The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
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Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
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The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
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My background was in performing originally.
