Van Cliburn Quotes
If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
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I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.
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If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
