Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
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I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.
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The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
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Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
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I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
