John Cage Quotes

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• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Chance
  • First
  • Second Chance

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Society
  • Small

• Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Money
  • Never
  • Cat

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Equality

• The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

  

  John Cage
  • Life
  • Business
  • Understanding