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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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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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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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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You must bring a white-hot level of intensity and focus to your work.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.
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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.
