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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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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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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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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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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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.
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It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
