- George Frederick Handel
(03/14/1681 – 04/14/1759)
German composer, on the "Hallelujah Chorus" of his "Messiah"
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"Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows."
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| "Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes late all my life-time!" |  |
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
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"The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time."
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
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"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
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"First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
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"I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it."
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"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users.'"
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"I am amazed at radio DJs today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for."
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"Women need a reason to have sex—men just
need a place."
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