Joshua Bell Quotes
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.
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You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.
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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
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This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.
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I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
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The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
