Aaron Copland Quotes
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
