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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. -- Franz Liszt
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. -- Daniel Barenboim
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close. -- Rachel Cohn
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element. -- Charles Darwin
When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money. -- Ludwig von Mises
Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme. -- Richard Holbrooke
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. -- Tori Amos
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. -- Erwin Schrodinger
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. -- Peter Eisenman
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. -- Colin Farrell
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision. -- Scott Cook
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. -- Dean Koontz
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. -- Talcott Parsons
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do. -- John Guare
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls. -- Jonathan Kozol
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same. -- Edward Hoagland
I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good. -- Stone Gossard
I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. -- Michael E. Mann
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. -- Lord Chesterfield
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. -- George C. Williams
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. -- Sol LeWitt
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. -- David Ricardo
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist. -- Caroline Knapp
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. -- Noam Chomsky
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. -- Leroy Hood
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. -- Joss Whedon
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. -- Gerhard Richter
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. -- Hank Azaria
As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me. -- Debi Mazar
I'm very interested in variations. -- Jim Jarmusch
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. -- Richard Dawkins
I am a great believer in variations on the routine. -- Kaye Gibbons
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. -- John Lennon
It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations. -- John Robert Gregg
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. -- Robert Wilson
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. -- Neal A. Maxwell
First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. -- Carolyn Hax
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. -- Charles James
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. -- Charles Spurgeon
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice. -- Al Yankovic
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. -- Jonathan Tropper
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. -- Neil Jordan
It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. -- Savielly Tartakower
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially, -- Gloria Allred
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. -- Alexander Kotov
I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil. -- Hideo Kojima
You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you. -- Courtney Summers
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon... -- John A. Keel
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow. -- Laurie Lee
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. -- Leslie Feinberg
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed -- Charles Darwin
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. -- John Rawls
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it -- Niccolo Paganini
I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them. -- Jim Jarmusch
I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be. -- Pamela Anderson
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. -- Sylvia Plath
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. -- Margaret Fuller
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. -- C. S. Lewis
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. -- Christopher Isherwood
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. -- Ellsworth Huntington
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. -- Leonid Shamkovich
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. -- Emanuel Lasker
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain. -- Mary McCarthy
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. -- G. Stanley Hall
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half -- Jan Timman
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision. -- Scott Cook
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat. -- Brad Leithauser
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. -- Boris Sidis
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. -- Charles Darwin
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. -- James Taylor
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty. -- Walter J. Phillips
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. -- Lin Yutang
Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky. -- Rob Lowe
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context. -- Richard Meier
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations. -- Fernand Point
Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity. -- Nick Harkaway
I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too. -- Martina Hingis
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers. -- Jerry Uelsmann
There are about a thousand different variations on a horse neigh. Some of them sound like a horse having sex, some of them like a horse having sad sex. -- Denis Leary
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there. -- Pierre Schaeffer
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies. -- Virgil
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do -- John Guare
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange. -- David Ricardo
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them. -- Sasha Cohen
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations? -- Savielly Tartakower
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end. -- Emanuel Ax
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end." -- Emanuel Ax
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. -- Pieter Zeeman
Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name. -- Sharlto Copley
The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule. -- Neil Pasricha
It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good. -- Aziz Ansari
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those! -- Tim Meadows
If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots. -- Shawnda Currie
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves. -- Mary McCarthy
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors. -- Ronald Fisher
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes. -- CeeLo Green
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. -- Hermann Joseph Muller
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch). -- Michael Snow

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