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"There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it."
"I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments."
"Action is the fundamental key to success."
"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century."
"Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits."
"Being upbeat is the key to life."
"When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments."
"Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions"
"The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection."
"When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life."
"I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible."
"Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon."
"The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information."
"The key to success is failure"
"The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society."
"Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem."
"The key is to have energy."
"But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play."
"Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief."
"Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . ."
