Charles Ives Quotes

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• I've served on the International Relations Committee.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • International
  • Committee

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Short

• How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Sky
  • Looking

• A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Good

• I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Home
  • True
  • Travel

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Children
  • Black
  • Poverty

• There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

  

  Charles Ives
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Heart