Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Harrison Birtwistle

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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca

EducationSchoolStartHigh School

My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

HeartGreatTimeLongPartyLucky

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

John F. Kerry

FashionYouCountryUpBehaveJust

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

John Lydon

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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

CarSongTrueI Was RaisedSomething

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

Roger Moore

GivingAlwaysAnswerWhoHesitate

For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.

Lou Barlow

WorkPeopleMeSituationBearHard

California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.

Diego Luna

TimeRealityFarmCaliforniaWorkers

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

Chris Borland

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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Clifford Geertz

NothingAgreeAlmostStructuresVery

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Peter Diamandis

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What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'

Shayne Ward

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