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Charles Ives Quotes

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 20, 1874 - May 19, 1954

Topics

Great Know Inspiration Experiment

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

Mind Feminist Term

I expect greatness out of myself.

Myself Greatness Out Expect

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

Change You Want Used Because Get

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

Mother Woman Child Enough Milk Eat

I looked at the race, and I said, 'Look. Hillary Clinton is going to be hard to beat.' Another bad prediction on my part, because she's turned out a lot weaker than I thought.

Thought Look Bad Said Race She

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Key Finding Easy Play Said Way

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Life School People High School You

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Antonio Banderas

Money Honor Country Privilege Years

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life Women Daily Day Men Simplicity

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

Responsibility Political Important

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

Allyson Schwartz

People Me Some People Determined

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science Myself I Am Game Look Find

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