Johannes Brahms Quotes
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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I never feel bad. You can't feel bad - you have to just make the best decision you can at the time you're in and be like, 'That's the decision I believe in.'
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.
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I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.
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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.