Maurice Ravel Quotes
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I don't like possessions.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
