Emanuel Ax Quotes
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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Just say no to drugs!
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.
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I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
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I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
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I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.
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I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
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If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.
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I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
