Fritz Kreisler Quotes
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.
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In every war, there's looting.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
