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Roger Sessions Quotes

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Roger Sessions

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1896 - March 16, 1985

Topics

Music Experience Ask Profound First

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Ramstad

Gratitude Service Security Important

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

Jenifer Lewis

Beauty Up Grew Shop

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

John Hickenlooper

Good People Small Think Thinking

I absolutely always buy in a bigger size. This is true for coats and also sweaters - I always take a bigger size because I think it looks far more chic if it's loose-fitted rather than tight.

Jeanne Damas

Think Looks True More Always Size

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

Steven Weber

War Game Guilt Innocent Vietnam War

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Simone Weil

Friends Meeting Separation Two Far

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.

Mary Berry

Job Writing Thought Year Cheese Own

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Jose Rodriguez

Detail Small Book Black American

I work out with a trainer five days a week.

Jordana Brewster

Work Week Out Days Trainer Work Out

I am religious in my thinking.

Dianne Feinstein

I Am Thinking Religious Am

I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.

Deborah Mailman

I Am People Mind Listening Control

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

Christine Pelosi

Life Work Hard Work Women Color Run