George Crumb Quotes

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

George Crumb

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MusicNervousRhythmSystemAffects

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

John Backus

WorkLazyBeingComeMuch

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

Andrew Bird

FlyingPlacesAlaskaKidOverMaps

There was just something about me she did not like.

Andy Griffith

MeSheSomethingJustLikeDid

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

John Travolta

TimeHardMakeEveryCultural

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.

John Paul Stevens

TeamBrandNFLCommonStillAligned

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

Amy Adams

LoveVoiceWishFindMy OwnI Wish

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Steven Pinker

ReflectGenesEvenMostTabooCases

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Shiv Nadar

TechnologyFocusEndDevelopment

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Roscoe Conkling

PoliticsAmericanElectionWillUs

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Jose Mujica

LiveEnergyStandPovertyWant

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Doug Aitken

WorkSpaceBrainProcessYouOffice

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

Donald Dunn

SmileMotherManHappyPeopleMe

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