Aleksey Igudesman Quotes
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
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Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother's sense to her.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits.
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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
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If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
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Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
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I do not separate France from Europe.
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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
