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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Appetite Beginning Brings Eating
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Always Hear Like Music
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change ChangeTheWorld Citizens Committed
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Admit Beings Contributions Fellow
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Artists Borrow Great Lesser
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Create Dynamic Force Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Alone Being Essence Love
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What force is more potent than love?
Force Love More Potent
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Assumptions Chiefly Composer Exposure
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Cannot Forgiven Only Sins
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Harp Lives Out Percent
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Any Becoming Ending Endless
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Each Exhaust Genius Human
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Artist Gives His Imitators
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Careers Classic Conductor Conductors
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Believe Caring Change ChangeTheWorld
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Did Had Pairs Shoes
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Also Anything Defence Fight
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Die Going Later Retire
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Go God Heaven Love
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Allergic Hate Know Ugliness
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Different Different Way I Think Linear
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Always Anything Back Been
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Am Aware Extent How
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Every EveryTime Liberate Man
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Lose Nothing Poor Rich
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Because Does Give Husband
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Dollars Down Dress First
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Both First Ladies Problems
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.

Everything Own Philippines Practically
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Am Comfortable Fish Holding
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

After Election Go Lose
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Accident Am By The People Elected
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Beauty Because Extravagant Garbage
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Got How How Much Know
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Become Dreams Life My Life
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Born Had Human Human Right
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Dollars Get Here Listening
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Beautiful Beauty Look Poor
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Basic Basic Human Rights Comfort Concerns
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Bible Continuous Crime Even
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