We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who … - David Amram

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To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

David Amram

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

Art, Frank, Modern, Museums, Reading

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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

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I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

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In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

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A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

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I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

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I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

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William Osler

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

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Tom Robbins

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

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Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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