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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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'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 have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or 'Moses' talking points' - but hasten to add that they're not exactly 'carved in stone.'
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
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You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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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
