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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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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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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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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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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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
