Evelyn Glennie Quotes
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.
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You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong.She's the one - I've been toldNow she's wearing a band of gold.Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.
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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
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If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
