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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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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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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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
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We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.
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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
