Arthur Honegger Quotes
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
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Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
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In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
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To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
