Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

Evelyn Glennie

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• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
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• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
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• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
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  • Today
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• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
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• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Feeling
  • Tired
  • Hit

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Like
  • Private
  • Meddle

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dream
  • Hate
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• The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Wall
  • Going
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• Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

  

  Deion Sanders
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  • Passion
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• I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Business
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• I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Good
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• No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

  

  Bill Goldberg

• For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

  

  Cheryl James

• A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Car

• For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
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• I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Mind
  • Brave

• I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

  

  Marc Ribot
  • Time
  • Music
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• I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Music
  • Knowing
  • Repercussion