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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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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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
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I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
