Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I never dye my own hair, I don't know if I could get every spot, and I have a good bit of grey.
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There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
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Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.
