Maury Yeston Quotes
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.
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And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
