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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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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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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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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Become Dreams Life My Life
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Always Beauty Extravagant God
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Bad Because Compared Did
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Anxieties Been Consume Consumption
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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Abandon All Day Appear Ask
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Enjoyed Climbing People Friends
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities
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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Heart Friends Better Train
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Breath Every Every Step Filled
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

One Night Dark Face
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In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Deal First Heal How
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She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Happy Lies Dust Eye
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Enlightening Eyes Falling Love
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently Beautiful Kind Intelligent
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Heart Pity House Bone
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Base Calls Entirely Even
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I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Control Myself Flaw Perfection
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I always work with 18 friends.

Always Friends Work Friendship
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I am very shy with people I don't know.

Am I Am Know People
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Became Becoming Created Phenomenon
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Believe Fine Direction Feel
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Able Anthropology Astonishment Been
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Altogether Childbirth Could Different
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Asked Before Box Ever
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Agree Dealing Like Manners
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Becomes Competitive Family Grown
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Cannot Down Elevator Going
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

After Being Enough Greatest
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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