Kurt Masur Quotes
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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We have to keep the families together, but they have to go. What if they have no place to go?
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
