Max Winkler Quotes

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Book
  • Piano

• I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Been
  • Twitter
  • Travelling

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Think
  • Disaster

• I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Person
  • Alien

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Time
  • Why
  • Singing

• When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Risk
  • Thought
  • Season

• We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Jesus

• If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

  

  Max Winkler
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