Hector Berlioz Quotes

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hector Berlioz

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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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Fighting
  • Religious
  • Competition

• 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.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Less

• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Holy
  • Holiness

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Children
  • Age
  • Thought

• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Love
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Stress

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Missing
  • Celebrate

• The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Mind
  • Interior

• I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Quiet
  • Suited

• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Law

• All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

  

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
  • Definition
  • Theology
  • Oppressed

• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Talent
  • Luck