Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
Foster Friess
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
Carlo Ratti
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
Randall Jarrell
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Edward Abbey
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
Margaret Drabble
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A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
Marcel Proust
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Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
Fady Joudah
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.
Jonathan Mostow
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.
Peter F. Hamilton
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I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
