Philip Glass Quotes
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.Philip Glass
Quotes to Explore
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr -
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
Laura Schlessinger -
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes -
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie -
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie -
I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
Caitriona Balfe -
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Halle Berry -
I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
Flume
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I don't like to talk about myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt -
I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I like guys who drive trucks.
Inga Cadranel -
I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
Damian Loeb -
You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.
Andrew Aydin
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
Samantha Morton -
I never thought I would live Kimberly Shaw down. So the fact that I've got another character, very different, under my belt is great.
Marcia Cross -
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
Philip Glass