Michael Tippett Quotes
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
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The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
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Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.
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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
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Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
