Zubin Mehta Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac -
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
R. L. Stine -
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller -
I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
Bebe Rexha -
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
J. D. Souther -
Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
Warren Spector -
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley -
It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
Damien Hirst
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
Safak Pavey -
And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
Barack Obama -
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble -
I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.
Edward Witten -
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.Any fool can do it;There ain't nothing to it.Nobody knows how we got toThe top of the hill.But since we're on our way down,We might as well enjoy the ride.
James Taylor -
I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I’d have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.
John Mayer
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
James Russell Lowell -
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
William Shakespeare -
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
Michael Franti -
Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
Edgar Ramirez -
Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
Zubin Mehta