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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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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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
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I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
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Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
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I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.
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I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.
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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.
