Philip Glass Quotes
I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.Philip Glass
Quotes to Explore
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom -
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
Jack Kemp -
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
Pat Paulsen -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
Tahl Raz
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Karin Slaughter -
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
Samuel Adams -
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Downloading songs is not good.
Obie Trice
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
J. R. Smith -
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
Patricia Hewitt -
I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
Bam Margera -
Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts -
I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
D. B. Sweeney -
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
Barry Ritholtz -
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie -
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel -
Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
Brown Campbell -
As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.
Christen Press -
I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
Philip Glass