"One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles."

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Source : "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

Igor Stravinsky

#Artist Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Noses Quotes

“As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.”
“In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.”
“We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”

Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan
“Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.”
“No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.”
“If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.”
“When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.”

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