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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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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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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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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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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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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.
