"After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household."

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Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

Georg Solti

#Mother Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Cost Quotes

“There is no such thing as high returns without risk.”
“Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.”
“The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed”
“I feel like I've finally got to this place that I really want to be. The place where, in my fantasy, the characters just get up and walk around - this interstitial place between humans and dolls. But I also feel like, where am I supposed to go from here? Because this feels like the place I've always wanted to be, for my whole life of shooting.”

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“Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.”
“The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.”
“There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.”
“Iâ€™m dead ***** running for president in 2016.”

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