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I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life — Armistead Maupin
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the… — David Tudor
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I… — David Tudor
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which… — Iannis Xenakis
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a… — Morton Feldman
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. — Erik Satie
When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president… — Christopher Hitchens
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the… — Warren Buffett
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a… — Mark Twain
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights… — John Dos Passos
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. — Pinetop Perkins
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says… — Jim Rogers
Even though he was and enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he… — Jack Handey
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make… — Jack Handey
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls… — Neal A. Maxwell
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. — Johann Georg Hamann
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs. — Michael Ignatieff
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. — Max Frisch
Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in… — James Fitzjames Stephen
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and… — Jonathan Kent
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. — Vernor Vinge
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton

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