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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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
Banksy
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We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case.
John Rawls
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To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
Nathan Winograd
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'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyam
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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