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I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

David Del Tredici

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• Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Give
  • Plan
  • Tax

• Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Together
  • Software
  • Apple

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hate
  • Change
  • Win

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Optimistic

• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Air
  • Wind

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Want
  • Never
  • Rich

• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Theory
  • Experiment
  • Naive

• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Continue

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • More
  • Selfish
  • Lazy

• I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Simple Life

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Star

• 'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Guy
  • King

• 'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • American

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Happy
  • Support

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • See
  • Whole

• I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

  

  David Del Tredici