Franz Schubert Quotes
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
Gary Ackerman
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine Albright
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
A. J. Buckley
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
Warren G
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
M.I.A.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Aaron Johnson
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
Edmund Phelps
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
Eddie Plank
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
Daniel Barenboim
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
LaToya London
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
Samantha Mumba
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It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.
Mariella Frostrup
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We were able to flood the zone immediately.
Jonathan Klein
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I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
Estelle Parsons
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If heaven exists, to know that there are laughs, that would be a great thing.
Robin Williams
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When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Franz Schubert