Elliott Carter Quotes
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
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What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
