Anton Webern Quotes

Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all component parts... the aim is to make as clear as possible the relationships between the parts of the unity; in short, to show how one thing leads to another.

Anton Webern

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• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Period

• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • California
  • Diversity

• I view myself as a male artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • View

• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • School
  • High
  • House

• Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Theatre

• So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Right
  • Say

• The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Charity

• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Team
  • Management
  • Mission

• All men are born equally free.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Men
  • Free
  • Equality

• I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Academic
  • Novelist
  • Academically

• Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Friends

• My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

  

  Laura Dern
  • School
  • Band
  • Son

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

  

  Dustin Clare
  • Character

• I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Want
  • Girlfriend

• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Couple

• Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • World
  • Running

• We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Political
  • Meaningful

• Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all component parts... the aim is to make as clear as possible the relationships between the parts of the unity; in short, to show how one thing leads to another.

  

  Anton Webern
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