Van Cliburn Quotes
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
Van Cliburn
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
Nancy Gibbs
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
Iman
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Malcolm Mclaren
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Barbara Mandrell
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
Narada Michael Walden
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
I. M. Pei
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
Omar Dorsey
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
Sally Field
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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
Eric Maisel
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
Erma Bombeck
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Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.
Will Tuttle
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
Larry J. Sabato
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
Eddie Marsan
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
Van Cliburn
