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E. Y. Harburg Quotes

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1896 - March 5, 1981

Topics

Music Words Song Think Thought You

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Training World Personal Matter Worst

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like 'Once Upon a Time' enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren't in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.

Character Time People Values Fairy

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

Science Problem Sex True Personal

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

Great Me Drama Where Get Just

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Me Misunderstood Theme Out Made His

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

Growth Future Value Present View

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Business God Science Retail Laws

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Faith Feel You Feeling Will Write

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

Positive World Ending Better Need

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

Family Marriage Children Way Odds

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

Peer Steinbruck

People World Political New Will Pay

I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.

Grateful Selfish Regret Think Wish

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