Paul Hindemith Quotes
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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When I give I give myself.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
