Simon Rattle Quotes
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
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You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.
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I'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow.
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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
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It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they will.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
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If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.
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[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.
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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.
