"For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine."

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Source : "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, 1980.

Francois Mitterrand

#Strong Quotes #Artist Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.”
“I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this (laughs). You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.”
“Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.”
“We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.”
“Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.”
“Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.”
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.”
“The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.”

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