Frederic Chopin Quotes
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
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God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
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I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
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My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
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I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
