Clara Schumann Quotes
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
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It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.
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If the private insurance market can survive in a context of a public option, good for them. But if they can't, then that will tell you something about the nature of the market.
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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of it’s difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole.
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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
