Pierre Boulez Quotes
I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.
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If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
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My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'
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I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
