Simon Rattle Quotes

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

Simon Rattle

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I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

Jessie James Decker

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Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

Jill Scott

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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Max Born

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I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Sophia Bush

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Kids are the ultimate trump card: a way to get out of co-op board meetings or lunch with a friend you don't want to see or your brother-in-law's set at a comedy club. It's fair to use your kids as an excuse to sidestep what you don't want to do; it's less fair to blame them for not being able to achieve what you do want to do.

Rumaan Alam

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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Mary Daly

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If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.

Jon Gruden

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I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

Dimebag Darrell

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I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.

Christian Louboutin

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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

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Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

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I guess guys who play on national TV get a lot of publicity.

Scottie Pippen

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