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Stockhausen was a great guy, very rich in terms of musical imagination, all the different aspects of sound creation rolled into one extraordinary intuition. With a strict intention to be serial, but serial in an explosive way.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about intention, intuition, creation, wealth, imagination

I never thought of it in terms of the leading man or not leading man, or whatever. I don't think it changes.

Quote by Richard Gere about man, thinking

The motivation is probably less egocentric now in terms of my need to do it, but to work with great people.

Quote by Richard Gere about motivation, need, work, people

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

Quote by Linda Fiorentino about nation, people

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about teaching

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just...

Quote by Tom Hanks about myth, magic, human imperfections, man

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about fight, conflict, order, peace, world

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, eyes, people

I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about contentment

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation, people

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Quote by Franz Kafka about despair, destiny, life

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Quote by Franz Kafka about marriage, woman, life, contentment

“To live” and “to be a hero” are mutually exclusive terms.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, heroism

Military Intelligence is not a contradiction in terms, Light Infantry is!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, army, intelligence, light

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong, even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God...

Quote by Mohammed Omar about god, defeat

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true, and this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Quote by George Oppen about character, reason

I think the purpose of the legislation is to address the use of words you and I are very clear about in terms of whether or not they are profane

Quote by Doug Ose about politics, purpose, use, word, contentment

I think in terms of a melody that sounds like something new. Nobody's told me yet that my tunes sound familiar.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, proudness, dark, work, things, time