Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Igor Stravinsky

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

  Vance Joy
  • People
  • Book
  • Road

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Attitude

• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Liberty

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Years
  • Thought

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • God
  • True

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.'

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Freedom

• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Long

• I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

  

  Wayne White
  • Family
  • Health
  • Human

• Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music