"The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict."

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Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor

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“Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.”
“A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if youâ€™re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.”
“Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.”
“Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.”
“When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2007). “Phantom Waltz”, p.69, Penguin
“Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billionâ€“and those who will follow them.Â And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.Â The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that youâ€™re not special. Because everyone is.”
“As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.”
“I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.”

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