Ned Rorem Quotes

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

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• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Me
  • Fame
  • Deal

• Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Race
  • Healing
  • Redemption

• The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • You
  • Last
  • Predict

• There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Food
  • Single
  • Politics

• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friends
  • High
  • Health

• So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Explain

• Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Society
  • Process
  • Reflect

• You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Education
  • Health
  • Goals

• Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience

• I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Magic

• The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Dog

• These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • People
  • Condolences

• This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Moment

• It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Life
  • Important
  • True

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Small

• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bible
  • Persons
  • Iron

• Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

  

  Ned Rorem