Lou Harrison Quotes
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
