#lie

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#habits #rather #superstitions #than

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#anybody #broke #charlie #good #his

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

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The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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