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“You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.”
Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005. 
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“When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.”
Source : "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.
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“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”
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“In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.”
Source : "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.
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“I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.”
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“I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.”
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“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition...”
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“Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.”
