My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
If we were really tough on crime, we’d do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
The response to ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
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