Hector Berlioz Quotes
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Actors make less than you think.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.
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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
