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?
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I would like my kids to study well.
Vijay
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci
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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
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand
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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
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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
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus
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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
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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
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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
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
Maggie Smith
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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
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
Edward Tufte
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Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen, die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen. Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen, unsere fröhlichen Kräfte-zeigen sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
Alex Turner
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I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!
Drew Carey
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The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
Tom Harkin
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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