Charles Ives Quotes
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
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As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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I had a great time with John Duigan; he's pretty amazing.
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I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
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By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
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The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.
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Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.
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That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.
