Leo Ornstein Quotes

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

Leo Ornstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1892 - February 24, 2002

Topics

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Hair on a guy is something that attracts me first; if you've got a good head of hair, and you're able to style yourself in a way that's presentable, I think that's really important.

Jessica Stroup

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

John Berger

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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.

Jenny Zhang

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I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Andy Warhol

PeopleThinkDieGoNeverJust

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Stephen Covey

WorldSee

Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.

Sue Hubbell

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I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Mike Birbiglia

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The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

Mona Sutphen

EducationInnovationHealthResearch

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

Jason Mantzoukas

PeopleThinkKnowNeedBackground

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci

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I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Anne Hathaway

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