Kurt Masur Quotes
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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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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Lipgloss is my calling!
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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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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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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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I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
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I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
