Evelyn Glennie Quotes
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things on their own. You got people that put me on beats I never rapped on. I just feel that it's a bad thing.
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Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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I think peas are really nasty. I liked them when I was younger, but I guess when you get older you have different taste buds.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
