Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Harrison Birtwistle

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MusicAgeKidWroteUntil

The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.

John Gurdon

DatingMeBodyStoneBackTeeth

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

John Sununu

LifeBusinessArtBlameColdBad

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Tommy Lee Jones

LanguageAmericanViewPerfectHe

I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to.

Mitski

MusicProudFeelGuiltyListenTop

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

Joni Mitchell

AngryArtistWantOldCertainly

I can fight Cain Velasquez if they want. It's not up to me, I'm not the matchmaker.

Jose Aldo

FightMeI CanWantUp

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

Chris Harris, Jr.

GoodLosingTeamYouOutSomething

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Chrissy Teigen

MenMeToughSpeakThinkPicture

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

William Shatner

TodayCityGrowing UpGrowingWay

The media should probe and challenge candidates to help voters understand their views on foreign policy. Questions should include, 'What lessons have you learned from past foreign policy decisions? How will they shape your vision as commander in chief? What is America's role in the world?'

Pete Hoekstra

VisionChallengePastWorldHelp

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Timothy Garton Ash

WorldKeySurvivalLibertyEmbrace

Being told you're too small and never going to make it is an opinion. And it's a valid opinion, and it's something you take in your stride.

Timothy F. Cahill

OpinionSmallYouNeverTakeGoing

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