Vladimir Horowitz Quotes
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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Act because you love to act.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I will run against anybody.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
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A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Take pains. Be perfect.
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False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
