David Del Tredici Quotes
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
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A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
