Geoffrey Downes Quotes
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.Geoffrey Downes Asia
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
Narciso Rodriguez -
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga -
My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
Damien Chazelle -
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi -
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
Gary Hart -
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.
Fabiola Gianotti -
The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
Victoria Abril -
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
Rabih Alameddine -
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Kate Forsyth
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo -
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
Victoria Woodhull -
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
Ted Kulongoski -
I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
Imogen Heap -
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
Pat Barker -
The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
Francine Pascal
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That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
Morton Gould -
We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
Eyedea -
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
Geoffrey Downes Asia