Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Think
  • Style

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Economic
  • Performance

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • Black
  • Colors

• Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Time

• I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Focus
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Gym

• He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator. (p.7)

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Religion

• Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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