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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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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'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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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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People believed what I said was what I believed.
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I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements.
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I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them.
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Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.
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I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
