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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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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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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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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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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You’re dealing with it all the time. Even if it goes up to a high level, you’re still playing out this role of ‘It’s fine.
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A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.
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There's no such thing as an independent person.
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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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My background was in performing originally.
