Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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I'm not obsessive, like I have to have the best butt or the best abs, but I like the idea of feeling strong and healthy. It's important to feel good about myself physically.
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I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
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God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
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Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
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To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
