Richard Wagner Quotes
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.
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If my parents were to hear that their son won an Academy Award, they'd roll over in their graves. I was the luckiest person, but that luck came through the grace of Muhammad Ali.
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If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.
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I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.
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I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
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I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
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When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
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We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.
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Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
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You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
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The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
