Franz Liszt Quotes
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.
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I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
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Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
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The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
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Truth is a great flirt.
