Bryn Terfel Quotes
I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
Quotes to Explore
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
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I hate downtime.
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'Aye. Like knows like, sister'
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.
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It is remarkable that since Nekhludoff understood that he was disgusted with himself, others ceased to be repulsive to him.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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Everyone gets that second album syndrome.
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
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I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
