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After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. ↗

— Georg Solti

#abundant #after #anything #besides #continue

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#like #servant #serve #would #you

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity. ↗

— Georg Solti

#became #components #during #dynasty #empire

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it. ↗

— Georg Solti

#connected #everything #get #i #past

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#central #even #human #human beings #important

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#i #never #political #political agenda #those

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#his #i #least #man #ones

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actually #allows #creative #creative outlet

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#appreciate #ever #fans #i #jeopardize

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#controlled #does #environment #i #make