Simon Rattle Quotes

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

Simon Rattle

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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

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Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

John Bytheway

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Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

Jennifer Haigh

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The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

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Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Anna Freud

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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Jeff Ament

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So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

Stephen Cambone

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My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

Roger Moore

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'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

Ruth Rendell

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I put myself into character for my songs.

Michelle Branch

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People ask me if I'm going to open a school. Why not? I think I should. Maybe not a typical school where anyone can come but with young fighters definitely one day. I don't have the nerves for amateurs.

Mirko Cro Cop

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It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

Brad Pitt

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