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Alan Hovhaness Quotes

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1911 - June 21, 2000

Topics

Think Place Own I Think Each

I'm not cocky, I'm humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.

Humble Think I Can Cocky Top Really

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

Death People Me Stand Seriously Out

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Writing Thought Wine More California

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Death Man You Go Low Tragic

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.

Future Today Sacrifice American Will

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Religion Thoughts Deep Think Talking

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

Child Me Mom World Reality You

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Greed Talking Want Listen

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Family Father Service School Support

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Job Mom Being Hardest Most Ever

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Experience Personality Win Battle He

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.

Peter Hargreaves

Business Worth Numbers See Share

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