Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
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Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
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Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
