Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
