Johannes Brahms Quotes
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
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Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
Vernon Howard
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen
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We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
Walter Gropius
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Dana Carvey
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
Sally Phillips
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.
Nastassja Kinski
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As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
C. S. Lewis
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What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?
Pat Buchanan
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TO-MORROW, to-morrow, thou loveliest May,To-morrow will rise up thy first-born day;Bride of the summer, child of the spring,To-morrow the year will its favourite bring:
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.
Anna Sui
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If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
Alan Sugar
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We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?
Meg Myers
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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
