Okkyung Lee Quotes
I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.
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People take things so seriously.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.
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I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
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I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.
