Alva Noto Quotes
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Please don’t go away from me. We can work it out- whatever it may be, girl.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
