Christian D. Larson Quotes
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
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Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
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To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
