"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music."

-- Leo Ornstein

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“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.”
“The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people will find that they are already very close to being the parent they are striving to be. Other people will find reading books or blog articles to be very helpful and some other people might benefit most by engaging in discussions on the internet.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.”
“I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.”

Source : "Josh Peck Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.
“According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.”
“Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.'”
“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”
“But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.”

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