Edgard Varese Quotes
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
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Might does not make right! Right makes right!
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Music means a great deal to me.
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I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
