John Corigliano Quotes
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.John Corigliano
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
Yair Lapid -
Second place is just the first place loser.
Dale Earnhardt -
Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
Mandy Moore -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown -
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
Daniel Gilbert -
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose -
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie -
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
Managers are the most creative people in the world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
Jack McDevitt -
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
Maelle Gavet -
I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
Warren Buffett -
When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.
Chris Ware -
It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.
Kelli Giddish -
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.
J. C. Ryle -
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw -
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
John Corigliano