#tempo

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dance #foolish #full #get #i

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bob #contemporary #country #dylan #end

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#become #contemporaries #fame #fortune #i

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. ↗

— William Feather

#fundamental #hard #hard work #lack #maintained

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#aggregate #business #contributes #growth #high

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. ↗

— Christo

#art #chicago #contemporary #contemporary art #created

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#circumstances #concentration #democracy #executive #executive power

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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