Michael Schenker Quotes
I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera.
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To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
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You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
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The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
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I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.
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I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.
