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Samuel Barber Quotes

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 9, 1910 - January 23, 1981

Topics

Life I Am Better American Wonderful

I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I Am Think Lucky I Think Talented

A lot of people can raise money.

Money People Raise Lot

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Time People Year You Accomplish

What do we know about the diseases carried by illegal aliens? Not much, thanks to government secrecy, but we know enough to be worried.

Government Enough Know Thanks Much

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti

Good Age Myself Aging Fight Care

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

Ideas Think American Long Party Say

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

King Loved American Him Up Guy

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

History Past Me Believe Connections

Stand-up is my baby.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Live Society Leaf Clothes Copy Wear

John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

Good Voice Logic Jump Silent Divide

When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.

Emmanuel Macron

Face You Situation Steel Will Never

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