Niccolò Paganini Quotes
When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
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I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.
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Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
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Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
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When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.
