Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
Quotes to Explore
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.
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I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.
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Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
