Elliott Carter Quotes
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.
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My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.
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What xRapid allows you to do is to have real-time liquidity.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
