Jean Philippe Rameau Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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Why am I political? Because society's consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title minority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether subtle as noninclusion, or as loud and violent as hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
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... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
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Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
