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.Maurice Ravel
Quotes to Explore
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Faith Hill -
I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim -
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.
Jacob deGrom -
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett -
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.
Aaron Paul -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby -
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?
Wassily Kandinsky
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Samuel Daniel -
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski -
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar -
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
Omar Bongo -
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming -
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.
Edie Falco
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I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'
Taylor Negron -
Yes, your father and Bartolo They have fallen And yesterday they fought and fell But in the quest for joy and freedom And in the struggle of this life you'll find That there is love and sometimes more Yes, in the struggle you will find That you can love and be loved alsoForgive me all who are my friends I am with you I beg of you, do not cry
Joan Baez -
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
Ma Jian -
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.
Marie Lu -
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.
Maurice Ravel