Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quotes
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I don't really yell at people.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.
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I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
