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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.


Harry Mathews


#conducting #could #first #go #got

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.


Karl von Frisch


#grammar #grammar school #i #later #medicine

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.


Leon Askin


#art #city #cross #deal #great

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.


Russell Baker


#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.


Karl von Frisch


#i #received #university #vienna

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.


Walter Kohn


#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.


Fritz Kreisler


#disturbances #everywhere #greatly #impressed #increased

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.


Hedy Lamarr


#born #child #fairy #father #fire






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