Evelyn Glennie Quotes
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Music is my home.
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I'm for innovation and a commitment to a rising tide that lifts all boats for all Americans.
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U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
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I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
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I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.
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Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.
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Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
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This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
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I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
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When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.
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We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.
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My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
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Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
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In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'
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It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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In my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me different from her, and guilty about what I got. Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
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I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.
