Erich Segal Quotes
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
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When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
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If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.
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If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
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I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.
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Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them
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If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
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The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
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Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
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The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
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It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
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Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
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...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be с and wonderful.
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Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
