Andre Rieu Quotes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.
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I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.
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I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.
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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
