William Herschel Quotes
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
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Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
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Being lost is worth the being found.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
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Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
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I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
