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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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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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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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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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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Negative energy is wasteful.
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Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
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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.
