Claude Debussy Quotes
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
