Boris Sidis Quotes
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I want to play interesting women.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.
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I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
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Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.
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The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
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We were a country of sages. They were all over the place, sometimes clogging the streets and roadways.
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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
