Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.

Yehudi Menuhin

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
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• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
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• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
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• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
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• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
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• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
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• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

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• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
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• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
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• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
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• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
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• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

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• Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

  

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  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
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• The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

  

  Louis Agassiz

• In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

  

  Pauline Ferrand-Prevot

• We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • World
  • Light
  • Spiritual