Kurt Masur Quotes
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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After the Lincoln Hotel people showed their colors by demanding payment, we turned our back on them. We moved out.
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There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
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If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
