Claude Debussy Quotes

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Claude Debussy

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Food

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • High
  • Always
  • Expectations

• I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Me
  • Mean

• I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Giving
  • Technology
  • Personality

• No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Wish

• In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important

• Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Heaven

• I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov

• I wake up as soon as it gets light.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Up
  • Light

• The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Food

• I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

  

  Bette Midler

• The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • College
  • Stock

• If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

  

  Gaston Leroux
  • Love
  • Saved
  • Phantom

• Unveil’d, unmask’d ! not so, not so !Ah ! thine are closer wornThan those which, in light mockery,One evening thou hast borne.The mask and veil which thou dost wearAre of thyself a part;No mask can ever hide thy faceAs that conceals thy heart.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Light

• I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Afraid
  • Here
  • Recognize

• Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

  

  Claude Debussy