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“What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.”
Source : Andromeda Romano-Lax (2008). “The Spanish Bow”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.”
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“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.”
Source : Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press
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“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.”
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“The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.”
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“All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.”
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“There's no better way to process pain than to write.”
Source : "Sundance 2012: Rashida Jones on Her Screenwriting Debut, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.
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“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”