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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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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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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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
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That's part of show business: the moving.
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
