Edgar Guest Quotes
To have no secret place whereinI stoop unseen to shame or sin;To be the same when I'm aloneAs when my every deed is known;To live undaunted, unafraidOf any step that I have made;To be without pretense or shamExactly what men think I am.
Quotes to Explore
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
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How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
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It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.
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To have no secret place whereinI stoop unseen to shame or sin;To be the same when I'm aloneAs when my every deed is known;To live undaunted, unafraidOf any step that I have made;To be without pretense or shamExactly what men think I am.
