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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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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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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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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'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.
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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
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ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει.
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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
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Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
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Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
