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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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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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
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Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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If I start putting too much pressure on myself, that's something my mama is there to help with.
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Withholding the truth is lying.
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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.
