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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• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

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

  

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

  

  E. G. Marshall
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• 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.

  

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• People work hard.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Patricia Arquette
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• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
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• There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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• I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

  

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

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Beautiful
  • Human
  • Instrument