Classic Quotes - Page 4

• Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

  Yuja Wang

  Music, Dark, Blood

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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

  Michael Emerson

  Dream, Blessed, Play

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• I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Film, Fortunate

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Great Year

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• I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

  Raquel Welch

  Mother, School, Kids

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Europe, Records

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• Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

  Wyclef Jean

  Rap, Feel Good, Six Months

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• But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Ambition, Voice, Joy

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.334, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Block, Air, Greek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

  Mose Allison

  Player, Ems, Jazz

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• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  Barry Sheene

  Race, Years, Two

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• Parineeta is a classic love story.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Stories, Love Story, Classic Love

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• I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Glowing, Forever

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• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Margot Kidder

  Drama, Evil, Greek

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Children, Kids

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• Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestling, People, Judging

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• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

  Randy Newman

  Ideas, Genius, Destroying

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• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

  Barbara Amiel

  Country, Opportunity, Journey

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• I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Discipline, Not Good Enough, Musician

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• I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

  Peter Sellers

  Example, Humorists

  "I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know". Book by Mark Stibbe, 2010.

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• I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

  Rob Morrow

  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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