George Crumb Quotes
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
Wendell Pierce -
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey -
When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame -
Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann -
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
Eddie Huang -
The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
Zoe Foster Blake
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I think often that God is guiding me.
Natalia Makarova -
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne -
Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
Victor LaValle -
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
Barry Humphries -
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
Yahya Jammeh -
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
Hannah Kearney
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell -
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson -
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Garson Kanin -
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. Wilson -
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
Yao Ming
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I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.
Andy Mineo -
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
Quentin Crisp -
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Alex Faickney Osborn -
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.
George Will -
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
George Crumb