Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evelyn Glennie

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Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

Joel C. Rosenberg

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I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Andie MacDowell

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I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

Robert Gottlieb

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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Matt LeBlanc

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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

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I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

Robbie Lawler

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A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Dick Cheney

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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

Dick Gregory

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I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Britt Robertson

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Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Tibor Kalman

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Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

Rick Atkinson

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