Igor Stravinsky Quotes
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
