#cia

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#happens #i #musician #who

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#country #digest #experience #explore #how

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#divide #lead #politician #rule #unite

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#absent #especially #generous #kindly #those

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gain #never #noble #torn #us

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#available #best #democracies #democracy #disaster

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#because #black #especially #eyes #fighting

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced