Ned Rorem Quotes

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • You
  • Difference
  • Driven

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Different
  • May
  • Government

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Party
  • Fight
  • System

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Doing
  • Worst
  • Duty

• Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius.

  

  Pooch Hall
  • People
  • Opinion

• I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

  

  Dizzy Gillespie
  • Music

• Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reflection

• The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • Music
  • Experience