Philip Glass Quotes
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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In the calm violence of your being, desire.
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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
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I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.
