Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
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I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
