Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'
