Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007

Topics

FreedomManOpinionThinkThought

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Viola Davis

PeopleGrowPovertyYouWaySee

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Joan Didion

LifeMy OwnMoreOwnWouldLike

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

John Frusciante

GoodGood ThingsWorldEverything

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

Tom Wolfe

LifeMeYouDiscoveryPageKnow

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Michael Moore

DemocracyEventSpectatorParticipate

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.

Judy Collins

LifeSonMenMeHusbandMy Life

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

CommunicationMotherArtistBackShe

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

TruthGovernmentTruth IsHonest

The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.

Craig Brown

SeaSunWake UpHouseBedroomFirst

Usually, when people watch magic, there are two levels: the people who walk away accepting that there are things they don't know, and the other group, who wants to know, 'How did it work? How did that happen?' They want to unravel the puzzle.

Apollo Robbins

WorkWalkPeoplePuzzleMagicKnow

When you get old and play every day like I did, it's hard. Hard on your body. You start to get sore. You gain weight. But that makes me work harder, be stronger in my mind, and show I can still play.

Asdrubal Cabrera

WorkDayMindMeStartStronger

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

William Safire

YearsBeenRight-WingMany

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