George Crumb Quotes
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.
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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
