#those

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #be nice #come #effort #enjoy

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#achilles heel #fame #free #heel #hurt

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#ceases #conception #god #his #itself

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#age #although #basically #cases #descriptions

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#could #decision-makers #fbi #get #had

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

#character #cream #figure #i #ice

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#been #contented #convinced #demanded #i

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#chains #dress #glamorous #gold #high-heeled