Alma Gluck Quotes

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Alma Gluck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 11, 1884 - October 27, 1938

Topics

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My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

Jennifer McMahon

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Politics is not really my thing.

John Malkovich

PoliticsReallyThing

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Matthew Rhys

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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

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I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

Mary J. Blige

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I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

Dick Dale

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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Susan George

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No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.

Pete Hoekstra

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For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Thomas Menino

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Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

Tim Scott

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In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.

Leila Janah

ThriveYouCitizenDigitalEconomy

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