Al Madrigal Quotes
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
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I don't really like comedy.
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In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
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That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
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My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
