Edgard Varese Quotes
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Racism is a physical experience.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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For kids it's natural to be competitive.
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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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Three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.
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Anything is bearable if you can fight it, but if you must sit back and take it… That breaks you in a way I can’t explain.”
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Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
