Maurice Ravel Quotes
'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'Maurice Ravel
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray -
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis -
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
Gabriel Macht
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
Tamra Davis -
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
Aaron Brown -
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Felix Dennis -
I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
Yoko Ono
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Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden -
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Orla Brady -
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Samuel Butler -
I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
Rachel Maddow
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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome -
I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
Daniel Nestor -
Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.
Amiri Baraka -
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
John Philip Sousa -
I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
Andy Rooney -
'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
Maurice Ravel