Gustav Mahler Quotes

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Gustav Mahler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911

Topics

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Coldplay I really like a lot. David Grey, I'm obsessed with.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rostand

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I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.

John Rhys-Davies

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Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Stephen Chbosky

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Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Rob Zombie

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To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

Rob Lowe

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When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

Michael Weatherly

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It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

Miriam Makeba

LifeMusicDayI AmWorldAmerican

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

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I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Jude Law

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On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Coretta Scott King

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We are all neighbors. Be kind. Be gentle.

Clemantine Wamariya

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