Elliott Carter Quotes

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

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• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Black
  • Simple
  • Black-and-white

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Free
  • Logic
  • Illusion

• You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Script
  • Cameron

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Model
  • For Him

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mother
  • Musician
  • Become

• But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Money
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• An amazing thing to . . . have that kind of impact on people.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Impact

• For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Die

• Perspective is not a science but a hope.

  

  John Berger
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Perspective

• This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

  

  Elliott Carter
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