Hector Berlioz Quotes
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'
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But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?
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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
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Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
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There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
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Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'
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Bach is Bach just as God is God.
