Elliott Carter Quotes
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.Elliott Carter
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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.
Imelda May -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips -
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Barry Sternlicht -
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.
Ted Danson -
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
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.
Washed Out -
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.
Tamra Davis -
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
Eduardo Chillida -
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.
Pankaj Mishra -
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. Simpson
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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.
Nancy Keenan -
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.
Harlan Coben -
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.
N. T. Wright -
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Nancy Pelosi -
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
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The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
Colin Wilson -
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.
Prince Royce -
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
Ann Turner -
During the war, in hundreds of Iliums over America, managers and engineers learned to get along without their men and women, who went to fight. It was the miracle that won the war - production with almost no manpower. In the patois of the north side of the river, it was the know-how that won the war. Democracy owed its life to know-how.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
Elliott Carter