But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness it is more deeply a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics one people one land one truth the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

If you escape from people too often you wind up escaping from yourself.

The size of your network doesn't matter - it is the quality of your netowrk that counts.

To the bachelor the language of women is mystery. In those matters a married man is already a scholar.