"I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love."

-- Igor Stravinsky

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“I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.”
“Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.”
“I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here's another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.”
“On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.”
“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,”

Source : Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia

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