Aaron Copland Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
