"I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices."

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Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, 1960.

Sergei Prokofiev

#Music Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Devices Quotes

“When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.”

Source : "Science Policy for the 21st Century". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.
“If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
“I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.”

Source : Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December, 1998.
“Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.”
“Everything I loved became everything I've lost.”
“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.”
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new”

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