Michel Legrand Quotes
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
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To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
