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.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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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.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.
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I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
