Cees Nooteboom Quotes
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
Cees Nooteboom
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Aaron Koblin
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
Karrie Webb
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
Nancy Roman
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Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel
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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
Charlotte Lennox
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You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.
Alan Hollinghurst
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
Yoshihiko Noda
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No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.
B. J. Gallagher Hateley
