Curious Quotes - Page 18

• The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

  Wu Han

  Art, Skills, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Views, People

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

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• It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.

  Steve Jobs

  Kids, Artist, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Doors, Events, Looks

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

  Pierre Boulez

  Curiosity, Coffins, Ifs

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• It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

  Edward Elgar

  People, Criminals, Way

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• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  John Calvin

  Men, Done, World

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• I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Writing, Character, Mustache

  Source: collider.com

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• Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

  Paul Frank Baer

  People, Narrow-minded

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

  Rand Paul

  Saving, Claims, Billions

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Ideas, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, People, Problem

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.64, Penguin

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• I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

  Alice Walker

  Bisexual

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• It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sometimes, Midwinter

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.150, Oxford University Press

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  People, Car, Curiosity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  Mamie Gummer

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

  Paul Fussell

  Humility, Government, Lucky

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• The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Risk, Should, Transgression

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• When I think of [my relationship with Gable], considering the way it started, it was curious. We became devoted to each other. We weren't lovers-he was in love with Carole Lombard...we eventually became more like siblings. Nobody believes that and you can understand why...but our relationship was unique. Oh he sometimes gave me the macho routine when people were watching but he changed when we were alone.

  Myrna Loy

  Sibling, Believe, Unique

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• It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Ideas, Community

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• Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Optimistic, Men

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

  W. C. Fields

  Couple, Color, World

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