Frederic Chopin Quotes

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat.

Frederic Chopin

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• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Free

• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

  

  Finn Jones
  • World
  • Always
  • Seeing

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Work
  • Country
  • Party

• I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Gay

• It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Up
  • Growing

• Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Presidential

• I'm not surprised by the way these kids are. When I recruited them I knew that these were special kids. I just prayed that we could get them to commit. And how excited I am that we're going to have them for more years. The fact that they're poised when it matters ... over the course of the season those two guys have done incredible things. When you look at them as a pair, I challenge you to find a freshman combination anywhere that's doing the things they're doing.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Kids
  • Season
  • Combination

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Men
  • Birth

• You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Writing
  • Hungry
  • Surprised