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Rufus Wainwright Quotes

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

Rufus Wainwright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 22, 1973

Topics

World Treat Jazz Try Up Masses

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

Joe R. Lansdale

Blue Class Working Come Collar Very

The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won't give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet... it didn't.

John Battelle

Work Home Brain World Building You

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.

Mayer Hawthorne

Me Think DJ Attention Say Shy

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

Andy Goldsworthy

Small Heat Expensive Big Happened

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

John Slattery

Worry Movies Guy Because Sell Front

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Toni Servillo

Art Single Gesture Must Daring Each

The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States.

Rod Lurie

Military United Institution Most

No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families.

Rod Lurie

Women Responsibility Day End Rise

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Rose George

Moving Desert Find First Through

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

Jordana Brewster

Car Amazing Dream Would

Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

Douglas Brinkley

Wind Political Difficult Policy Some

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

Power Gold Way Matter Impress Iron