Wilfred Trotter Quotes
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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It's so hard not to smile.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.
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Oh my gravy!
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.
