Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Quotes

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Down

• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Lose

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Important
  • Israel
  • Heritage

• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Years
  • Tennis

• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Fast

• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Like
  • Debt

• You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Working
  • New
  • New York

• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Drive

• I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Die
  • Never
  • Mood

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • House
  • Always
  • See

• I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Break

• They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Together
  • Fire

• In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.

  

  Bruce Alberts
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Evolution

• God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • God

• We are currently touring with less special effects and props, focusing primarily on the music and the musical performance. It’s essentially what it’s all about, and I enjoy concentrating on that aspect of our musical catalogue.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Music
  • Performance
  • Effects

• The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Good
  • Country
  • Service

• I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

  

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Music
  • Bach
  • Owes