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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#composer #first #four #i #i remember

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#basic #bathing #been #being #childhood

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#finish #impossible #more #picture #terrible

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#copied #drawing #everything #fifty #i

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had. ↗

— Uri Geller

#being #even #explain #ground #had

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#children #improve #nice #nice things #others

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#does #only #poetry #save #save the world

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. ↗

— Lillian Gish

#even #explain #get #i #i believe

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#assured #certain #construed #deceive #faculties

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#being #belief #certain #certainty #humane