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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Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
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In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.
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Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.
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If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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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.
