Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
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For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
