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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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
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We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they really are a snapshot, ... Why are we elevating these narrow scores and thinking they show so much?
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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.
