Earle Brown Quotes
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'
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The outstanding people realised that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. Consequently, the best strategists made sure that executives were involved in decisions at an early stage. The less outstanding people didn’t see this, and it had been overlooked by the experts. But, as soon as we showed them our findings, they could see that it made sense.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
