Bryce Dessner Quotes

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

Bryce Dessner

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I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Joan Rivers

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I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal.

Jenny Zhang

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Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

Melanne Verveer

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Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.

Robert J. Shiller

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Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

Jean Piaget

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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Amy Tan

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I do not know how anyone can mould anyone.

Amrita Singh

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When you're 16 years old, you're not afraid of anything.

Stephanie Sigman

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We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

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I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

Travis Scott

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Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.

Michelle Forbes

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I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

Louis Oosthuizen

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