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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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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Most people think I have a lot of fun and that I'm a pretty good driver but they don't take my driving all that seriously.
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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
