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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
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Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
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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.
