Pierre Boulez Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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I'm not big on the closet.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.
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Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.
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I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And, yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.
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The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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I think every intelligent woman should have a career.
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We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
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Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
