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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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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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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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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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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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.
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Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
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Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
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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.
