#cian

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#child #doctor #how #i #kids

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#always #been #big #big government #bureaucrats

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#generally #philosophers #politicians #try

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#about #aide #engaged #good #good thing

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#became #bunch #classic #dad #doctor

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#depending #different #each #i #members

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything