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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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Personal Development
"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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Personal Development
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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Personal Development
"If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels."
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Personal Development
"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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Personal Development
"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"
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Personal Development
"Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade."
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Personal Development
"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
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Personal Development
"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."
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Personal Development
"A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am."
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"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
Art
"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
Work
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
Music
"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
Work
"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."
Thought
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
Work
"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."
Age
"Truth is a big concept."
Truth
"It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music."
Music
"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."
Years
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