Elliott Carter Quotes

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

Elliott Carter

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SeriousMoreNeverWriteStudyOut

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Joanna Lumley

MoneyYouLookMatterAlwaysTaste

The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.

Jens Martin Skibsted

RoadEnergyEfficiencySustainability

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

PressureReachWallStreetDebt

You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.

Andris Nelsons

WorkFamilyMusicHealthRespect

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time.

Trisha Yearwood

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Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Tom Kristensen

GreatBestWinningSpeedYouRace

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Cobi Jones

ChangeTimeKnowOldSameReflect

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Anne Wojcicki

RiskAlzheimerParkinsonDisease

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

Philip K. Dick

LovePeopleMindWorldWantMeet

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Sharon Stone

LifeCrazyMy LifeHandLuckyHim

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

Shawn Mendes

GoodBestWorldWantSoundSinger

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.

Sharon Jones

TimePainMeSingingDoctorNight

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