Alfred Brendel Quotes
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.
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Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.
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Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
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Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
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I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
