Leo Ornstein Quotes
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
