#ch

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#anything #change #future #i #i can

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#absurd #am #amazed #because #bit

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#brought #children #curiosity #fighting #girl

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#because #blessing #child #easily #enormous

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#build #character #editor #especially #evokes

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#cuba #dad #english #find #generation

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. ↗

— Meg White

#choose #evils #lesser #pretty #sad