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Max Richter Quotes

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

Max Richter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: german
Birth: March 22, 1966

Topics

Sleep Doing Humanity Connection Kind

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

Jen Sincero

Live People Reach Mediocrity Silent

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Andrea Dworkin

Language Supremacy Every Sentence

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Maya Hawke

Family Hard Two Coming Things Those

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

John Henrik Clarke

Greatness Long Rome Egypt Become

His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.

Robert Hilburn

Music Power Fire Ideas Musicians

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

Michael Dirda

Parents Me Mom Doing Christmas Code

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

Shirley Manson

Yourself Rebel Ridiculous Difficult

The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Community Job Risks Control Better

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

Christopher Reeve

Me Done Others Years Come Much

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nature Mexican Nurture Hungarian

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

Claudette Colbert

Woman Face Matters More Than

I auditioned just for fun.

Clay Aiken

Fun Just