Kurt Masur Quotes
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
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For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.
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There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
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People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.
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My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.
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As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
