Kurt Masur Quotes
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
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I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.
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I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
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Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.
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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.
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I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.
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I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
