Zeena Parkins Quotes
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I care about Bahrain.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
