Frederic Chopin Quotes

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Frederic Chopin

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Respect
  • Intelligent
  • Talent

• I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Intentions

• I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • School
  • High
  • Learning

• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Play
  • Win
  • Rules

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Job

• Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

  

  Walt Kelly

• That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good
  • Why
  • Light

• Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • History
  • Reality
  • Jesus

• Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Fire

• I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

  

  Barun Sobti

• For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

  

  Chad Stahelski
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Ego

• It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.

  

  Dwight Schultz

• Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Music
  • Art
  • Concerts