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.R. Murray Schafer
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
Ira Sachs -
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Usain Bolt -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
Karen Joy Fowler -
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 -
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Joanne Rowling -
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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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 -
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova -
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 -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo HIM -
I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
Mac Davis
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
Dan Quinn -
I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
Jennifer Lawrence -
Everyone always wants to say I'm shy. I don't think so, but there's a disconnect with my fans. I want my fans to see me - that's what they never do.
Jeremih Felton -
We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones -
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