Ned Rorem Quotes
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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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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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.
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We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.