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Johannes Rau Quotes

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

Johannes Rau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: german
Birth: January 16, 1931 - January 27, 2006

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You Create More Fair Question Years

I am often asked what it was like to be a woman clerking for Justice Scalia. 'Much like being a man clerking for him' is my easy answer. Justice Scalia believed in one simple principle: That law came to the court as an 'is,' not an 'ought.'

Joan Larsen

Justice Simple Woman Man I Am Law

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Joel Fuhrman

Better You Body Your Body Eat Your

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'

Robert Gottlieb

Faith Keep Going People America Bold

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier

Experience Man Feel Seventy True

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

John Wells

Family Power Humor Someone Kind Up

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sue Monk Kidd

Life Writing Civil Rights Secret

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

Tom DeLonge

Police Rock Everything Stadium Fan

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Mary Garden

Know Hopeless Write Up Critic Who

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Martin Short

Family Funny Think Because I Think

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Mireille Enos

Perfect Person Lucky Perfect Person

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Mitch Kapor

Good Father School Computers Help

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Livy

Honor Fall Desire Sometimes More