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Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match. ”
I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new. ”
Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one way and then perhaps exaggerate the next, but, in any event, he must do something with the music. The worst thing is not to do anything. ”
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing. ”
I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different. ”
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much. ”
If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them. ”
We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us. ”
The tax on being different is massive. ”
When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class. ”