Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
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New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
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Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.
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It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
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Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.
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All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
