#om

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#god #lie #no reason #omnipotent #only

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#art #beauty #cannot #chess #commercialized

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#christmas #expecting #fell #first #friend

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. ↗

— David Duchovny

#day #discipline #down #every #every single day

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!' ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#coming #community #concert #difficult #goes

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. ↗

— Leon Kass

#even #just #reproduce #somehow

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#building #citizens #community #orchestra #you

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ↗

— Louis Dudek

#always #come #evils #first #kinds

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#bad #bad press #energy #family #first

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#developing #doing #ends #film #got