Alfred Brendel Quotes
Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
Sam Kean
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
Adam Mansbach
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
Felicity Jones
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
Kate Reardon
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
Xavier Becerra
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Danica Patrick
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Patricia Schroeder
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
Orson Welles
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Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.
Colbie Caillat
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I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.
Adnan Sami
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It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.
Jacques Maritain
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When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
Bonnie Bedelia
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel
