Bruno Walter Quotes

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
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• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
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• I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
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• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
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  • Emotions

• Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • People
  • Business
  • College

• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
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  • Down

• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Purple

• I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
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  • Opportunity

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  

  Gavyn Davies
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• I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
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• When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • America
  • House
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• If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Cute
  • Fine

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Different

• I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Speech
  • Height
  • Pattens

• April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • April
  • Daisies
  • Primrose

• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  

  Bruno Walter