Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
