Riccardo Muti Quotes
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.Riccardo Muti
Quotes to Explore
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
Oswald Chambers -
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Alan Hovhaness -
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
Zeena Schreck -
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas -
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
Helen Keller -
I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.
Rory Stewart
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... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!
Georgia Harkness -
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Bernard Bailyn -
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.
Stephen Carter -
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
Edgar Wright -
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp
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Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then anĀ· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
Virginia Woolf -
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
Daniel Ellsberg -
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.
Riccardo Muti