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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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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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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My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.
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A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
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As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.
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God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
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You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
