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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
John Philip Sousa

Music, Good, Bad

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Thomas Ken

God, Father, Blessings

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
Brit Hume

Themselves, Journalism, Consider

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Andrew Motion

Others, Admire, Poet

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Andrew Motion

Others, General, Admire

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Walter Isaacson

Important, Country, Less

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye

Money, Down, Fact

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
David Cronenberg

Philosophy, Different, Float

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
Tom Petty

Alone, Team, Treat

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Edvard Munch

Tell, Creator, Paintings

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Jacques Derrida

Question, Practice, Critics

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza

Science, Today, Everything

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
Wendell Berry

Life, Humble, Deep

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
Margot Kidder

Life, Money, Young

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.
Fred Upton

Energy, Support, Policy

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox

Change, Help, Small

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Robert Smithson

Past, Reality, Act

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Boris Pasternak

Power, Truth, Beast

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
Armstrong Williams

Future, Children, Law

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Jose Marti

Love, Men, Live

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
James Larkin

Humanity, Off, Body

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
Chris Isaak

Music, Hard, Play

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson

Dead, Color, Sky

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.
Roger Goodell

Respect, Game, Rules

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
Kate Smith

Work, Care, Hard

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
Esther Williams

Strength, Girl, Character

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson

Business, Cool, Few

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
Baz Luhrmann

Love, Food, Creative

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Jason Bateman

Small, Rather, Year

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
Johann Most

Shame, Socialist, None

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