Nico Muhly Quotes

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Food
  • Running
  • Improvement

• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Age
  • Man
  • Change

• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Time
  • Long
  • Civilization

• Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Amazing
  • Style
  • Fight

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• One lives but once in the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World

• Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Money
  • She
  • Wife

• In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

  

  Mirriam Johnson
  • God
  • Small
  • Universe

• I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Anything I ever wanted, I had to work really hard for. I learned the value of saving my money, trying to make something happen, and being entrepreneurial, even as a really young girl.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Money

• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • America

• I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Author

• Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Work
  • Long
  • Attitude

• I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Language

• The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Work
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