Johannes Brahms Quotes
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
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You just can't compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE, nothing like this machine I am working for and I'm proud to work for.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.
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It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
