Cy Coleman Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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There's always another secret.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.
