Performed Quotes
457 Performed quotes by 406 unique authors
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There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of…
— Terry Eagleton
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able…
— Black Elk
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much…
— Black Elk
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
— Arthur Erickson
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When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and…
— James Fenton
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
— Janet Jackson
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same…
— LaToya Jackson
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I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that…
— Katherine Jenkins
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not…
— Samuel Johnson
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
— Michael Korda
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I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out…
— Steve Lacy
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
— Neville Marriner
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
— Demetri Martin
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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
— George Mason
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
— Bryant H. McGill
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
— Ewan McGregor
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In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the…
— Howard Schultz
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once,…
— Wallace Shawn
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The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
— Will Smith
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I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I…
— Jordin Sparks
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I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as…
— Bruce Springsteen
Who Wrote These Performed Quotes
406 authors contributed a total of 457 Performed Quotes, led by these top contributors: