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- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at forgetting auditions, and then there is a surprise to getting something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.
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- Nov 07, 2020