Bettina Skrzypczak Quotes
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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God blesses him who helps his brother.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.
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I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
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If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.
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In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives.
