George Crumb Quotes

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

George Crumb

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
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• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
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• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Me
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• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
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• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
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• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
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  • Same

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
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• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
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• When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
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• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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  • Up
  • Business

• When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

  

  Mary Hart
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock
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• I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Long

• I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
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  • Great

• I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

  

  George Crumb
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