Encores Quotes

• The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

  Hilary Hahn

  Pieces, Program, Audience

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

  Elvis Presley

  Writing, This Life

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.141, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

  Earl Scruggs

  Past, Light, Shining

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• There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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• I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

  Elvis Presley

  Simple, People, Giving

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  Liz Phair

  Song, People, Giving

  "Liz Phair’s on the lookout for magic in the moment". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Water, Tenacity, Ifs

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Holy, Beats

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.170, Penguin

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• Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords.
  Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.

  Pusha T

  Believe, Rap, Funny Things

  Song: Don't Fuck With Me

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• Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Needs, Divine, Stills

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• I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attention, Applause, Masters

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• Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

  Kate Baldwin

  Welcome, Wonderful, Warm

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• I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

  Bill Dixon

  Has Beens, Left, Reserves

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• I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

  Joseph Roth

  Pudding, Dishes

  Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

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• You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.

  T. D. Jakes

  Trouble, Know How, Knows

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• The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  World, Numb, Loud

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• Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]

  Augustus De Morgan

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.

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• Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

  Haruki Murakami

  Doe, Faces, Steps

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• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

  Richard Hamming

  Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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• I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.

  David Cross

  Lying, America, Europe

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• In Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  Mac DeMarco

  Country, Crazy, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Winning, Escaping

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• In the mini-series area, we are going to have a regular year-round, weekly presence on Encore of classic mini-series and a new mini-series that we are bringing. For the time being, I think the home of mini-series will be on Encore.

  Chris Albrecht

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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