Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
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My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
