George Gershwin Quotes
My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
Quotes to Explore
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
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Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
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The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
