Ernest Newman Quotes
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
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One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
