"Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."

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Anton Webern

#Ignorance Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.”
“A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham has constructed a detailed account of how the Brotherhood confronts the challenges before it, and why and when it embraces change. Everyone concerned with the future of Egypt should read this book.”
“I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.”
“There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.”

Source : "Mark Morris picks up baton in 'Dido' at Berkeley" by Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2011.
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”

Source : Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn
“I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.”
“I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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