Alpana Singh Quotes
It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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I feel for the players.
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
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Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
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I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
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Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
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Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
