Joseph Haydn Quotes
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
Quotes to Explore
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.
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My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.
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I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.
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I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
