Jacqueline du Pre Quotes
I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
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Will we lift our sights to meet his vision?
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
