Shinichi Suzuki Quotes
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
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For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
