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• Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Heaven, Earth, Lovers

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• You can be great only if it is your destiny.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Destiny, Your Destiny

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• Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Singing, Wonderful, Feels

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Challenges, Mind, Whole

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• I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Football, Party, School

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Thank God, Excitement

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Italian, Japan, Talking

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• I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Different, Lawyer

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• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Important, Tables, Speak

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• Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Voice, Singing, Might

  "Portrait of the artist: Andrea Bocelli, tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Blood, Sight, People

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• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mean, Beauty Everywhere

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• House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

  John Boehner

  Strong, Ifs And, House

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2006.

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• What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  People, Trying, Different

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• If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Dollars, Would Be, Tonight

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• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

  Boethius

  If There Is A God, Evil, There Is No God

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• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Monday, Yankees

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• I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

  Andrew Bogut

  Years, Normal, Persons

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

  David Boies

  Technology, Data, People

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• I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fire, Race, Black

  "Darkwater: The Givens Collection".

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• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Believe, Land, Earth

  1924 The Gift of Black Folk, ch.9.

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