Richard Strauss Quotes

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

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• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Wanted
  • Sorry
  • Months

• We all have our own little thing, I think.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Own

• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Why
  • Want
  • Wonder

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• 'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Country
  • Winning
  • Fire

• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  

  Josh Turner

• One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Up

• I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Sports

• From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Future
  • Question

• I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• [Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Women
  • Winning
  • Democratic

• You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Perform

• The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

  

  Plato
  • Beautiful
  • Proportion
  • Lacks

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Beautiful
  • Human
  • Instrument