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Robert Ashley Quotes

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Robert Ashley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 28, 1930

Topics

Me Theatre Television Kind Possible

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

Jenna Morasca

Time I Am Space Free Trying Always

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

John Engler

School Child Out Position Get Just

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

Maurice Sendak

Children I Am Survive Question Only

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

Angus Deaton

Success Growth World Poverty India

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Jeff Tweedy

Life Failure Think You Need Point

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Government Conflict Stand Television

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Steven Wright

Tired Weather Warm Now Alaska Santa

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

Tucker Carlson

Think Satan Over Been Would Era

I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.

Tom Stoppard

People Tell Ashamed Computer Having

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Mike Wallace

Freedom Sun Parents Rose Boston Up

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Live Society Dead Troublemakers

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.

Michael Ovitz

Mistakes Believe Think Sometimes