Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
Quotes to Explore
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I am a contrarian.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
