Anton Rubinstein Quotes
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
Qandeel Baloch
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
Salman Khurshid
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
Victoria Pendleton
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
Gabrielle Union
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In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers
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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
Allen Toussaint
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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
Stephen Hopkins
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman
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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.
Terence McKenna
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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein