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• Don’t I have a choice in this?” But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won’t be there.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Hands, Two

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Careers, Firsts

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving Up, Character, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Cute, Children, Skills

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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• You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Degrees, Answers

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• On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew is just as important as a country to a Gentile.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, New York, Important

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• In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Enormous Quantities, Society

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• How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

  Mischa Elman

  Inspirational, Music, Halls

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  C. Everett Koop

  People, Foundation, Archives

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• I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

  Mario Cantone

  Mother, Song, Gay

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• How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

  Jack Benny

  Practice, Carnegie Hall, Halls

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• At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.

  Jon Pareles

  New Orleans, Vintage, Tunes

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• It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

  Bernadette Peters

  Gay, Men, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

  Kirsten Nelson

  Growing Up, Couple, Concerts

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• One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Mold, Welfare

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962”

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• Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Abuse, Selfishness

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

  Demetri Martin

  Practice, House, Wish

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• A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

  James Cook

  Thinking, Library, Foundation

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• I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

  Charles M. Schwab

  Ideas, Wealth, Mines

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• I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

  Le1f

  Mom, Kids, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!

  Jon J Muth

  Beautiful, Brother, Book

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• I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Office, Nebraska

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• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  David Nasaw

  Men, Mad, Idiot

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• When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.

  Paul Gigot

  Real, War, People

  Estate Tax Debate, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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