Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes
I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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Customer-centricity is unbelievably important.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
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Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .
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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
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It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
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I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.
