Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.Igor Stravinsky
Quotes to Explore
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe -
I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin -
When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
Natalia Kills -
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
J. D. Salinger -
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp -
Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
Damon Albarn Blur
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
Jackson Katz -
My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
Kangana Ranaut -
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler -
Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
Imran Amed -
You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
Zac Goldsmith -
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
Verne Troyer
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
Zhang Ziyi -
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Gary Wright -
I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
Dan Gilbert -
I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
Damian Marley -
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
Gail Collins -
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
Vanessa Carlton
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Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
Ali Larijani -
Decentralized consensus technology will reach the mainstream when products are built that both empower consumers to take control of their own data and also offer users great UXs.
Nick Tomaino -
I'm a live performer and I love playing live.
Tim Finn Crowded House -
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
Miranda Raison -
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
Ian Frazier -
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky