William Wetmore Story Quotes
But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
Quotes to Explore
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
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People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
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I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.
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For me, the issue is if I'm your advocate, if I'm your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.
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Leave this world a little better than you found it.
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It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.
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But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
