"There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big."

-- Leonard Slatkin

#Play Quotes #Weakness Quotes #World Quotes

“I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.”

Source : "Matt Lauer Urges Bachmann to Bash Perry; NBC Debate Coverage Promotes GOP Infighting". Transcript of the Interview with Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. September 13, 2011.
“When I make music, it takes me two hours to get into the flow. To me it's like tapping into some kind of subconscious frequency: I just have to turn everything else off, open up part of myself, expose my fears and try to work through it in the music that I'm making.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me â€¦ with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.”
“Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.78, Atlantic Books
“Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.”
“How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms”
“I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.”

Source : "Queer as Folk‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.”

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