Pablo Casals Quotes
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.
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For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
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Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
