R. Murray Schafer Quotes
The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
Ira Sachs
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Usain Bolt
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
Nate Holland
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
J. B. Pritzker
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
Jacob Batalon
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
Karen Joy Fowler
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
Sam Mendes
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Joanne Rowling
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Pat Brown
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider
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We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German descent.
Charlie Daniels
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.
Ethan Hawke
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The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
R. Murray Schafer