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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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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What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't.
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I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.
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My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.
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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.