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The most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny (Yr Quotes)
Landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated (Yr Quotes)
The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it’s not orderly, and it’s not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops (Yr Quotes)
Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over (Yr Quotes)
When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that’s been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about (Yr Quotes)
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there’s nothing between you and the melody; it’s just a great lyric (Yr Quotes)
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I’m reading (Yr Quotes)
I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes (Yr Quotes)
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction (Yr Quotes)
Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food (Yr Quotes)
In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology (Yr Quotes)
Once you get a tyranny, you don’t easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance (Yr Quotes)
The translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language (Yr Quotes)
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments (Yr Quotes)
To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn’t matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed (Yr Quotes)
Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny (Yr Quotes)
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion (Yr Quotes)
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry (Yr Quotes)
I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup (Yr Quotes)
Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can’t be anything but the lyric poem (Yr Quotes)
My whole family has been such a great support, and theyre the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today (Yr Quotes)
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset (Yr Quotes)
I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it (Yr Quotes)
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot (Yr Quotes)
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from (Yr Quotes)
You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks (Yr Quotes)
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things (Yr Quotes)
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, theyre a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, theyre different again (Yr Quotes)
Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you’re singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose (Yr Quotes)
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot (Yr Quotes)