"Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Self Quotes #Taste Quotes

“There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.”
“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”
“I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.”
“Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!”
“When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.”
“So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?”
“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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