Lotte Lehmann Quotes
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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There were about seven guys that stayed in the 70s and were real patient throughout the whole day.
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It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.
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The world must be peopled!
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For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
