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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People trash talk me.
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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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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.
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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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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.
