Bela Bartok Quotes
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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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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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
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People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
