Richard Wagner Quotes

How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

Richard Wagner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 22, 1813 - February 13, 1883

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Jackson

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The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

John Fleming

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I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.

Spike Jonze

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I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Tom Paulin

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I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Louis Navellier

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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Don Kardong

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I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.

Johnny Iuzzini

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I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

David Suchet

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For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

Conrad Black

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When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.

AnnaSophia Robb

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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

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