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• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Different
  • Together
  • Culture

• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Myself
  • Moving
  • Race

• I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Death

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Think
  • City
  • Inspired

• Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Hobbies
  • Origami

• My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Fear

• Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Popular
  • Perception

• Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Hate
  • Persons

• I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Example
  • Terrorism

• People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Way
  • Suggestions

• Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Conversation