Igor Stravinsky Quotes
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
