Simon Rattle Quotes

Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

Simon Rattle

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The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

John Bradshaw

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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Joey Ramone

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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

John George Nicolay

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I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

Anna Diop

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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

Amy Chua

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The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Christopher Walken

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If you don't have content, you don't sell hardware. We need a suite of content of really fun, compelling experiences that aren't just hardcore game-oriented, and when that's good enough, it'll be an easy decision to go to the consumer market.

Brendan Iribe

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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Winona Ryder

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Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Phyllis Logan

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I'd like to just win everything. It would just be awesome.

Peter Uihlein

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But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

Richard Morris

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