Michael Tippett Quotes
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
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The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
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And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.
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I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
