Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 5921.
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
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I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
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I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
Spin magazine, December 1999 -
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
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I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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