Charles Rosen Quotes
We can, in fact, relive the history of taste in our own lives, the way embryos are supposed to go through the history of the evolution of a species.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I am not honest.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
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It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.
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We can, in fact, relive the history of taste in our own lives, the way embryos are supposed to go through the history of the evolution of a species.
