Jascha Heifetz Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
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I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.
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It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
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There's a big difference between knowing math and understanding why math models are important to a business.
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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
