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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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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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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When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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Patience is the best medicine.
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.
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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.
