Evelyn Glennie Quotes
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.Evelyn Glennie
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna -
If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright -
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith -
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley -
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow -
We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
Kalpana Chawla
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
Larry Kramer -
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin -
I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
Bill Frist -
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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High school is when I started to get my sense of fashion together. My queen was Candice Swanepoel, who is a friend of mine now, which is kind of funny, but in high school, I was obsessed. I love her street style: she is always in cool boyfriend jeans, boots, and an awesome coat, which is very much like what I wear.
Gigi Hadid -
I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.
Raphael Saadiq -
It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
John Forsythe -
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Bradford Cox -
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
Evelyn Glennie