Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
Quotes to Explore
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
