Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
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I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?
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I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.
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Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
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If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
