Cornelius Cardew Quotes

“The desire always to be right is an ignoble taskmaster, as is the desire for immortality. The performance of any vital action brings us closer to death; if it didn't it would lack vitality. Life is a force to be used and if necessary used up.”

Cornelius Cardew AMM

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• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Life
  • Control
  • Marriage

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Reading

• The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Good
  • Always

• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Comedy

• I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Present

• I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Alone

• Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• “The desire always to be right is an ignoble taskmaster, as is the desire for immortality. The performance of any vital action brings us closer to death; if it didn't it would lack vitality. Life is a force to be used and if necessary used up.”

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Life
  • Death
  • Immortality