Johannes Rau Quotes

#1. They see I've got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.

Hannah Kent

#2. There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

David Starr Jordan

#3. Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

Christine Baranski

#4. I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway ... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

Julie Andrews

#7. A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

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#8. A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

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#9. Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

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#10. There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

Lauren Beukes

#11. Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Johannes Rau

#12. Real confidence is based upon truth and fact. Get all the information you can about your field, your employer, and your own personal characteristics and history of success. Memorize

Philip Whitford

#13. I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

Glenn Beck

#14. But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

Johannes Rau

#15. I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

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#16. He would kiss me, right now, after everything I'd done. I was poison, and Noah was the drug that would make me forget it.

Michelle Hodkin

#17. Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

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#18. We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

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#19. You have an obligation to this world. That is to love it and make it more joyful.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

Johannes Rau