Larry Poons Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.
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I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.
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There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
