Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
Sxip Shirey
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
Parker Harris
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
Albert Einstein
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Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
Anthony Daniels
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Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.
Stanley Baldwin
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In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
Sxip Shirey
