Hector Berlioz Quotes
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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My education was very tough.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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I've always liked new writing.
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I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.
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Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.
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Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
