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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't."
"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head."
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."
"I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule."
"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave."
"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
"A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy."
"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
"To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America."
"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."
"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline."
"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."
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