"The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it."

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Leo Kottke

#Firsts Quotes #Remember Quotes #Stravinsky Quotes

“A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).”
“Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.”
“Love is a greater mystery than death.”
“If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.”
“Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”

Source : "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.
“Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?”

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