Charles Ives Quotes
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The fans treated me royally.
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When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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I do not steal victory.
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I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.
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What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
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I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
