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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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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There's no point doing a job where you're uncomfortable or doing something you dislike.
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I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'
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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.