I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. Use this quote
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. Use this quote
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Use this quote
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. Use this quote
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. Use this quote
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. Use this quote
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. Use this quote
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. Use this quote
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Use this quote
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. Use this quote
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. Use this quote
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Use this quote
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. Use this quote
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. Use this quote
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. Use this quote
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. Use this quote
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. Use this quote
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. Use this quote
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. Use this quote
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. Use this quote