Jon Appleton quotes

“Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.”
-- Jon Appleton

Source : "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford". The Dartmouth, September 30, 2005.

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“Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.”
-- Jon Appleton

Source : "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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“The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.”
-- Jon Appleton

Source : "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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“As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”

“The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.”

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”

“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”

“I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Atari is a very sad story.”

“Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.”

“It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.”