"I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have."

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Source : "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.

Arthur Rubinstein

#Would Be Quotes #Want Quotes #Chains Quotes

“People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.”
“Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.”
“One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.”
“It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.”
“That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.”
“Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!”
“Like our title song â€œClapâ€, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.”
“Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.701, A&C Black

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