Al Duncan Quotes

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

They say I have no emotions, but I'm excited even if you can't see it.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

We are unselfish and we trust each other

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.

I just hope to make a difference.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

Your direction is a result of your perception.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.