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.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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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.
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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.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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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.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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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.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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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.
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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.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
