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Declaring Quote by Ned Rorem

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“Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.”

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Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

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Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

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The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A…

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If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military…

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“We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal. ”

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All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

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In music the present is extended.

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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

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Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then…

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By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the…

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The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of…

Thomas Jefferson

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a…

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Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

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When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone…

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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for…

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I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One…

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