Artur Schnabel Quotes
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
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But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
