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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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
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All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
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There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.
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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.
