Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

Pierre Schaeffer

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Life
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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
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  • Doing

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Act

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
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  • Soft

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Self

• I can have an androgynous quality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Quality
  • I Can
  • Androgynous

• Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

  

  John de Mol, Jr.
  • Life
  • Book
  • Reading

• The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

  

  John Cusack
  • Up

• Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Ignorance
  • Circle
  • Angles

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Memory
  • Genuine
  • False

• The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer