Wanda Landowska Quotes
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.
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When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.
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I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
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Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.
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The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
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Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.
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I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
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There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
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I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.
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If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
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Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
