Modest Mussorgsky (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky) Quotes
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.
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Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
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No lie ever reaches old age.
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There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
