"For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product."

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Source : Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

Tyler Cowen

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“If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.”
“Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I”

Source : "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.
“Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.”
“I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.”
“I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.”
“The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.”

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