Andre Rieu Quotes
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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I have no guitar technique.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.
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Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.
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When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
