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cultures dedicated humble life man met music seemed spoke transcends
When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age. Andy Garcia
cultures felt mesh move pick position strength
We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well. Joe Crawford
cultures expected others people seeing sticking
I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown. Desarae Garland
cultures globally learn manage people project secondary skills
One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries, John Gallagher
cultures effective family host learn living love ways
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy. Eden Sher
cultures fat physically poor rich thin weak women
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. Gloria Steinem
cultures islam judge people produce radical sorry time
We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that. Orhan Pamuk
cultures literacy music origins poetry remembers tribal word
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch
cultures customs european knew
Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied, Brian Sewell
literacy leap
There is no such thing as a leap into literacy. David Petersen
literacy literature society teach trying value
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more. Paul Thomson
literacy fractions has-beens
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. Marshall McLuhan
literacy slave reason
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi
literacy instruction
Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. Ursula K. Le Guin
music
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed. Andre Previn
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music boredom people
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Agnes Repplier
musician financial affair
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs Charlie Byrd
music song thinking
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.
music doctors people
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
music mean emotional
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.
music brother django
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.
music design wish
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson
remembers-you remember-you picks
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. Charlie Chaplin
remembers-everything remember changing-your-life
Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life. C. J. Mahaney
remembers song welcome
Welcome to the Plush Room, welcome to me, ... The Song Remembers When. Linda Lavin
remembers-you remember-you people
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical. Idries Shah
remembers took
He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.
remembers time
He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.
remembers-you guitar remember-you
I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance. Beck
remembers-you remember-you leafs
remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf. Ali Smith
remembers
When will he be captured? ... I can't give you a date, but I can tell you this: Everyone remembers 9/11.
words-of-wisdom desire use
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire? Carlos Castaneda
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.