Edvard Grieg Quotes
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.
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I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
