Pablo Casals Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Life is always at some turning point.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
