Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

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• It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Amazing
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  • Now

• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
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• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
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• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
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• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
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• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • God
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• Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Economy
  • Sales
  • Tax

• I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Believe
  • Children
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• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
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• Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Summer
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• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
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• I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Electronic

• Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Space

• I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.

  

  Josh Wilson
  • Song
  • Honest
  • Writer

• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Waiting
  • Walk
  • Lead

• When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.

  

  Christine Comaford
  • Business
  • Success
  • Required

• I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Kid
  • Walk
  • Instruments