Philip Glass Quotes
The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.
Quotes to Explore
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.
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We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.
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The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.
