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

• 'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Boy

• I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • God
  • Why
  • Earth

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • People
  • Today
  • Black

• It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.

  

  Jessi Klein
  • Beautiful
  • Achievement
  • Profound

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

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Beautiful
  • Human
  • Instrument