Richard Strauss Quotes
Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
Quotes to Explore
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
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Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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I'd rather have Prada shoes than eat.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
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Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
