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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
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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.'
