Emanuel Ax Quotes

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Always

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Thought
  • Kid
  • Tough

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Madness
  • Proof

• I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.

  

  Fred Armisen

• My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

  

  Brad Feld

• Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Family
  • Waiting