Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Quotes
I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
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There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
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I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.
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I decided this would be the big break.
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Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
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The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
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I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
