Ravi Shankar Quotes

Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

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• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
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• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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• You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
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• That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Trying
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• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
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• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
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• I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

  

  Lonny Price
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• I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.

  

  Hank Williams
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• When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  

  Alan Cumming
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• I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

  

  Bellamy Young
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• You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.

  

  Ben Harper
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  • Kill

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
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• Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

  

  Mike Stoller
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  • Richard

• I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

  

  Ariana Grande
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• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  

  Taryn Simon
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  • Back
  • Blur

• Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

  

  Ravi Shankar
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