Carl Nielsen Quotes
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
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My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
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No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
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I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
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I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.
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Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.
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I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.
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My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research
