Darius Milhaud Quotes
It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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I began with a strong bias toward skepticism. Besides, to tell the truth, I still find occult phenomena a little preposterous and irrelevant. What do they really matter if you place them against the truly great human achievements - against the creative genius of a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven, an Einstein? In that context they seem almost trivial.
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
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It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
