"I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me."

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Andre Rieu

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“When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.”
“My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.”
“Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.”
“I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.”
“We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.”
“If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.”
“Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”

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