Hayley Westenra Quotes
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
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What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
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I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
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People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.
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I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
