Lesley Garrett Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I am a just man.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
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I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.
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I'm not that deep, I'm not that mysterious. Don't try to figure me out. I'm a very open book. What you see is what you get.
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The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
