Charles Ives Quotes
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Pilates is great.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
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I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
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Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
