Karl Amadeus Hartmann Quotes
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
