Bela Bartok Quotes
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.