Beverly Engel Quotes
It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget,’ to let the ‘past be the past’ or any of the other clichés your family and friends will try to persuade you to forget about what happened and to move on. Try not to accept these messages.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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I don't wear makeup when I'm home. I love taking a break from it.
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I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
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I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
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It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget,’ to let the ‘past be the past’ or any of the other clichés your family and friends will try to persuade you to forget about what happened and to move on. Try not to accept these messages.
