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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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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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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As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
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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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Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.
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The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.
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If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.
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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.
