All rock musicians are deaf… Or insensitive to mellow sounds. Marc Bolan
I feel there is a curse on rock stars. Marc Bolan
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can’t assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. Marc Bolan
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern. Marc Bolan
I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind. Marc Bolan
It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it! Lewis Black
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. Lewis Black
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. Lewis Black
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push ‘em closer. Lewis Black
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It’s a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? ‘Let’s send the monkey to Mars, Dad!’ Lewis Black
In my lifetime, we’ve gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We’ve gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we’ll be voting for plants. Lewis Black
There’s no such thing as soy milk. It’s soy juice. Lewis Black
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. Lewis Black
If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat. Lewis Black
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism. Kathryn Bigelow
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive. Kathryn Bigelow
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. Kathryn Bigelow
On the other hand, I believe there’s hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. Kathryn Bigelow
I like high impact movies. Kathryn Bigelow
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. Kathryn Bigelow
Right now, there’s the illusion of order and civilization, but there’s a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Kathryn Bigelow
I don’t believe in censorship in any form. Kathryn Bigelow
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. Kathryn Bigelow
You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that. Kathryn Bigelow
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm. Kathryn Bigelow
The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. Kathryn Bigelow
If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. Kathryn Bigelow
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War. Kathryn Bigelow
I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. Kathryn Bigelow
When I made my first film, I didn’t think of it as directing, so it wasn’t like I set out to become a director. Kathryn Bigelow
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. Kathryn Bigelow
One should make morals judgements for oneself. Kathryn Bigelow
Character and emotionality don’t always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. Kathryn Bigelow
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn’t sell. Kathryn Bigelow
There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible. Kathryn Bigelow
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. Kathryn Bigelow
People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school. Jason Biggs
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes. Jason Biggs
We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well. Jason Biggs
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I’m playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations. Jason Biggs
But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level. Jason Biggs
Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that. Jason Biggs
Well, I’m never happier than when I’m acting. Jason Biggs
I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise. Jason Biggs
But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well. Jason Biggs
Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do. Jason Biggs
I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful. Jason Biggs
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary. Jason Biggs
But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies. Jason Biggs
Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest. Jason Biggs
I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg. Jason Biggs
But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather. Jason Biggs
I don’t know if you’ll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon. Jason Biggs
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism. Jason Biggs
Like anyone who goes to college, you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. Jason Biggs
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned. Jason Biggs
I’ve heard every pie joke in the book. I’m still waiting for an original one. Jason Biggs
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds. Jason Biggs
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult. Jason Biggs
People say my music is English. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. Harrison Birtwistle
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Harrison Birtwistle
I’m not an architectural composer. Harrison Birtwistle
Music is such a problem in the time it takes. Harrison Birtwistle
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila. Harrison Birtwistle
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. Harrison Birtwistle
It’s the irrational things that interest me. Harrison Birtwistle
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn’t existed, I could have invented it. Harrison Birtwistle
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It’s absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. Harrison Birtwistle
When I was a kid, I wrote music – from the age of 11 until the age of 18. Harrison Birtwistle
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. Harrison Birtwistle
I’m not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I’ve never had that attitude to music. Harrison Birtwistle
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don’t meet. And then your friends say: It’s terrific! Harrison Birtwistle
One thing I’ve tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. Harrison Birtwistle
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it’s not just a collection of notes. Harrison Birtwistle
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I’d been writing since I was 11. Harrison Birtwistle
You either are or you’re not. Harrison Birtwistle
In the end it doesn’t matter what you do. Harrison Birtwistle
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision. David Boies
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet. David Boies
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It’s just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. David Boies
Napster’s only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster’s users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No. David Boies
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. David Boies
There are times when what’s happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all. Carla Bley
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn’t as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. Carla Bley
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. Carla Bley
Listening is more important than anything else because that’s what music is. Somebody is playing something and you’re receiving it. It is sending and receiving. Carla Bley
I still prefer the bebop of the ’40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. Carla Bley
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. Carla Bley
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. Carla Bley
I don’t enjoy traveling in America. I don’t like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food. Carla Bley
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. Carla Bley
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded ‘Sing Me Softly of the Blues’ and ‘Ad Infinitum’. Carla Bley
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. Carla Bley
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. Bodhidharma
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain. Bodhidharma
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. Bodhidharma
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment. Bodhidharma
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. Bodhidharma
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. Bodhidharma
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. Bodhidharma
Your mind is nirvana. Bodhidharma
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. Bodhidharma
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. Bodhidharma
Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Bodhidharma
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. Bodhidharma
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. Bodhidharma
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. Bodhidharma
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. Bodhidharma
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. Bodhidharma
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us. Bodhidharma
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. Bodhidharma
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help. Bodhidharma
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking. Bodhidharma
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. Bodhidharma
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. Bodhidharma
Words are illusions. Bodhidharma
Your nature is the Buddha. Bodhidharma
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it. Bodhidharma
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist. Bodhidharma
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. Bodhidharma
Freeing oneself from words is liberation. Bodhidharma
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. Bodhidharma
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. Bodhidharma
The sexes in each species of being… are always true equivalents – equals but not identical. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman’s suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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