Charles Rosen Quotes
Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.Charles Rosen
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
Dan Marino -
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
Karl Pilkington -
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
Adam Hasner -
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa Redgrave -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
Maggie Grace -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons
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It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone -
I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector -
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary -
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood -
Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
Katha Pollitt
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
Charles de Gaulle -
When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Rabih Alameddine -
Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?
Andy Dunn -
I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In fact, being a small minority. When I'm in Israel, I cannot get used to the notion that we're all Jewish. It doesn't seem to me that we're supposed to all be Jewish.
Mark Kurlansky -
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.
Sabrina Ward Harrison -
Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
Charles Rosen