Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes

Und soll wie aller Musik also auch des Generalbasses Finis und Endursache anders nicht als nur zu Gottes Ehre und Recreation des Gemütes sein. Wo dieses nicht in acht genommen wird, ists keine eigentliche Musik, sondern ein Teuflisches Geplerr und Geleier.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
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• All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
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  • Myself

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
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• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
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• I am not a madman or a nut.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Madman
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• Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
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• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• You need to have time to really hear God.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Time
  • God
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• When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

  

  Lucy Griffiths
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• Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

  

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Happy
  • Girl
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• Und soll wie aller Musik also auch des Generalbasses Finis und Endursache anders nicht als nur zu Gottes Ehre und Recreation des Gemütes sein. Wo dieses nicht in acht genommen wird, ists keine eigentliche Musik, sondern ein Teuflisches Geplerr und Geleier.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach