"Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful."

-- Itzhak Perlman

#Inspirational Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.”
“The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.”
“If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.”
“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.”
“I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.”
“You can do anything you think you can.”

Source : Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin
“I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.”
“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”

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