Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.
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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
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People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
