Farquhar McGillivray Knowles Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Oh, we definitely would have come and talked to them about the situation ... to protect our brother, hes not here no more. Hes passed, and, were his brothers, were supposed to do this.
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.
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It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
