Charles Ives Quotes

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Charles Ives

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

John Cameron Mitchell

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

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Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

Ann Coulter

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Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

Michael Imperioli

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I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

Steve Breen

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I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.

Sukhwinder Singh

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I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Steven Gerrard

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So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Steven Spielberg

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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Mary MacLane

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We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

Michael Korda

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It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

Louie Gohmert

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And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Debbie Harry

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