Elliott Carter Quotes
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
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I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
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Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
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This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.
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I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
