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Alfred Schnittke Quotes

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

Alfred Schnittke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: russian
Birth: November 24, 1934 - August 3, 1998

Topics

Childhood Happy Feel Long Dream

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

John Abizaid

Home Language Army Understand Never

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Jens Lekman

Live Culture Cool Place Used Shrimp

The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.

John Madden

Good Heart You Always Decide Going

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Robert Scheer

Time Quality Job People Trying Days

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Angela Merkel

Live Beginning Reality Country Said

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

John Prescott

Family Father Mother People You

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

Aly Khan

Remember Georgia Own Population Must

I do not want to stay in Washington.

Trey Gowdy

Want Washington Stay

I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?

Rosamund Pike

Fate Feel Someone You I Can Know

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

Power Plant Year Desk Nuclear Power

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

Martin Parr

Someone Need Email Facebook Avoid

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Donatella Versace

Love Friends Table Know Sitting Eat