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Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006

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Artist Grandfather Painter He

In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

God Science Light Experience Data

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Life Education Preparation Itself

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Science Health People Conflict Feel

I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.

Time Soul King Me Old Singer

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Myself Impossible Anything Get

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Me Stand Short Know Will Write

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Friends Trouble Know Ignorant Just

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

Happy Years Where Film Weight Did

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Good Principles Reason Temporary Few

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Love Business Yourself Enough You

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Time Obstacles Elephant You Band

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Child Universe Classic Priest Middle

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