Charles Ives Quotes
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
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Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
