Arthur Rubinstein Quotes
It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
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The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
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It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
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It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
