Felix Mendelssohn Quotes
Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?Felix Mendelssohn
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I would like my kids to study well.
Vijay -
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci -
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba -
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen -
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand -
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
Eberhard Weber
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
Fiona Apple -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus -
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power -
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
Karl Rove -
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe -
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson -
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner -
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
Maggie Smith -
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
Natalie Goldberg -
Can I come back and see you sometime?" "Long as you bring me some chocolate," Gramma said, and smiled. "I'm partial to chocolate." "Gramma, you're diabetic." "I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.
Rachel Caine -
If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
Jon Bon Jovi -
I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
Aaron Sorkin -
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?
Felix Mendelssohn