Frederic Chopin Quotes

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Frederic Chopin

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
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• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
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• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx
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• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
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• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
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• I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • People
  • Shoes
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• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
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• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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  • Hard
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• When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Women
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• Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

  

  Bernie Sanders
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• I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
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• After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Up
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• The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Unknown
  • Dumb