Ned Rorem Quotes
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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Art means to dare - and to have been right.
