Bear McCreary Quotes
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I play as I feel.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
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I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.
