Michael Tippett Quotes
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
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There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
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I am not scared to take a chance.
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The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
