R. Murray Schafer Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I'm a real optimist.
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Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.
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Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.
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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.
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I always put God first.
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Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.
