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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett English Composer

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky Russian Novelist

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Henry Wilson American Politician

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Carl D. Anderson American Scientist

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele British Dramatist

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Ron Chernow American Author

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard J. Needham Canadian Cartoonist

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French Lawyer

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra Dutch Scientist

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin Henry Fischer

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Method Man American Musician

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Nicholas Negroponte American Businessman

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

Chingy American Musician

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Dick Gephardt American Politician

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi Italian Saint

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

August Sander German Photographer

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Sonia Sotomayor American Judge

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Lisa Kudrow American Actress