#ann

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#bought #cannot #create #else #gratitude

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#cannot #change #consist #constitutions #general

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#especially #fantasy #fiction #horror #how

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#any #anyone #cannot #coming #coming home

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#antagonize #cannot #global #great #learn

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#attention #cannot #days #east #east asia

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#cannot #doing #everything #nothing #option