Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.
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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
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You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
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The question is not whether we should or should not regulate; it is how much should we regulate and who the regulators should be. We went overboard on deregulation under Reagan. Under Bush, many people lost in the casino. Now we have the Obama administration overreacting and overreaching with regulation that does the exact opposite of wealth creation. If we are to have change we can believe in, then we could start by replacing the majority of the lawyers in regulatory agencies with actual experienced, successful business veterans. They would have recognized the early warning signs of many of the financial debacles created by the bubble-bust cycle.
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None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
