Michel Legrand Quotes

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Michel Legrand

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• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• 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.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Country
  • Love
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
  • Done
  • Accomplishment

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• 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.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• 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.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Words

• There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

  

  David W. Orr
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Successful

• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

  

  Christopher Hampton

• You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Travel
  • Hands

• I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Women
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Came Up

• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

  

  Michel Legrand
  • Play
  • Spiritual
  • Existence