"It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided."

-- Dominique de Villepin

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“You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.”
“In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects.”
“Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.”
“We talkin' about practice?”
“Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.”
“Life's gonna give me another set. I know it will.”
“Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.”
“Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.”

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