Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
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If you feel like you have no other option in life but to follow your musical path, then do it. If you are talented and focus all your energy on becoming better and furthering your career and never give up, something will happen. I'm not sure what will happen, but it is guaranteed that you will do more than if you didn't do all that.
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If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
