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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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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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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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
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There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
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The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
