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.
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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.
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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.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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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.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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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!
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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.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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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.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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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.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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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.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.
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You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.
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I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
