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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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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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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There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
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I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
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It was accountability that Nixon feared.
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Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
