Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Quotes
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
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I'm here to play football.
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I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.
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Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
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I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.
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I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
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Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.
