"When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway."

-- Robert Gottlieb

#America Quotes #Nutcrackers Quotes #December Quotes

“As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.”
“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
“Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.”
“We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry.”
“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
“Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neil Patel from Oct 08, 2013
“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

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