Eugene Shvidler Quotes

Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.

Eugene Shvidler

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• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
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  • See

• I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Think
  • You
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• The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Best
  • Human
  • Word

• 'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • World
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  • Rest

• A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
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  • Believes

• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  

  Irving Howe
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  • Death
  • Reality

• I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-A-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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  • Smart

• For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

  

  Lois Wyse
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• I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

  

  Andrew Solomon
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  • England

• This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Work
  • Joy

• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
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  • Xbox

• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Money
  • Church
  • Mean

• Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

  

  Paige Omartian
  • God
  • Remember
  • Today

• The moon is a loyal companion.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
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  • Dark

• You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

  

  Rachel Simmons
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  • Leadership

• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Music
  • Different
  • History

• The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Love
  • Culture
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• The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Men
  • Together
  • Kind

• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Thinking
  • Behinds
  • Cameras

• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Literature
  • Characters
  • Conscious

• Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.

  

  Eugene Shvidler
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