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I've cried over string arrangements. -- Janelle Monae
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. -- Marcelene Cox
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. -- Don DeLillo
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. -- Thomas Cochrane
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. -- Tommy Shaw
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear. -- Erykah Badu
My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did. -- Denene Millner
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. -- Stephen Hawking
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. -- Paul Rand
But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen. -- Brian Epstein
We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. -- Sellapan Ramanathan
Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full. -- Catherine Martin
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. -- Paul Rand
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. -- Anne Campbell
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. -- Quincy Jones
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning. -- Juanes
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. -- Daphne Guinness
Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses. -- Bernie Sanders
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. -- Michael Mandelbaum
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. -- Howard Rheingold
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. -- Arne Glimcher
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. -- Jenny Shipley
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. -- Annie Besant
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness. -- Jon Landau
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. -- Dweezil Zappa
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs. -- Robin Trower
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer. -- Joshua Bell
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements. -- Barbara Johnson
Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then. -- Cassandra Clare
This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements." -- Walther Bothe
I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures. -- Josh Klinghoffer
This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements. -- Walther Bothe
We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras. -- Jane Lynch
As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements. -- Mel Torme
I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden. -- Tasha Tudor
Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs. -- Jens Lekman
Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. -- Van Morrison
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. -- Garrett Hardin
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records -- Duncan Sheik
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. -- Duncan Sheik
All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels. -- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions. -- Thalia
What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here. -- DJ Spooky
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. -- Parker J. Palmer
A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements. -- Marisha Pessl
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves. -- Lord Robertson
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. -- Rudolf Arnheim
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves. -- Robby Krieger
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually. -- James Howard Kunstler
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. -- Les Baxter
The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man. -- Kenneth Waltz
Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out. -- David Cameron
Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot. -- Tony Blair
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements. -- Richard Patrick
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses. -- Hanif Kureishi
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements. -- Alicia Keys
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. -- Louis Pasteur
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. -- Barbara Kruger
I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge! -- Tommy Dorsey
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. -- Mary Douglas
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements. -- Hillary Clinton
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. -- Christopher Lasch
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. -- Rex Stout
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements. -- Elinor Ostrom
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. -- Barbara Tuchman
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true. -- Zach Condon
I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements. -- David Bowie
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. -- Mel Torme
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. -- Mariella Frostrup
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. -- Walker Evans
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals -- Tommy Shaw
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others. -- Bill Nye
By exposing the fallacy of the UKâ??s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory. -- Babar Ahmad
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. -- Edmund Phelps
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. -- Bob Black
We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements. -- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore. -- Rokia Traore
One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test. -- Henry Spencer
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination. -- Erich Fromm
Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff. -- Anne Robinson
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. -- Herbert Spencer
Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.' -- Chris Squire
Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point. -- Antoine-Henri Jomini
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient. -- Amartya Sen
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things. -- Jimenez Lai
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'. -- Antony Flew
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements. -- Utada Hikaru
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano. -- Michael Hersch
There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests, -- Leon Panetta
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else. -- Justin Trudeau
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. -- Elvis Costello
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader. -- Joe Locke
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields. -- Dolly Parton
Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Meira, the crazy, orphaned soldier-girl. She's snapped, all thanks to the mention of floral arrangements. -- Sara Raasch
Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding. -- Bob Larson
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements. -- David Willetts
When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore. -- Natalie Merchant
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats. -- Reynolds Price
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there. -- John Anderson
None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives. -- Garth Greenwell
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs. -- St. Vincent
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. -- Henry David Thoreau
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out. -- Walt Whitman
SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed. -- Gordon Lightfoot

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