"Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Your happiness depends on you alone.”
“Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.”
“If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.”
“Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.”

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2014). “Pushkin Hills”, p.141, Counterpoint
“Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.”
“Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.”
“We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.”

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