"It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation."

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Earle Brown

#Reflection Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.”
“The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.”
“It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.”
“When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.”
“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”
“Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.”
“There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.”
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

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