Claude Debussy Quotes
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Don't be too influenced by what's 'in fashion.' Just be a bit more individual about it.
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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
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New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
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I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
