Kurt Masur Quotes

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Kurt Masur

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• I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Attention

• Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Story

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Space
  • Lose

• 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.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Colleagues

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• 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.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Character
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Up
  • Years
  • Here

• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• 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.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Architecture
  • Possible
  • Late

• Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

  

  Ovid

• Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge

• Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Helping
  • Scientist
  • Millions

• A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Discipline
  • Prince

• My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Trying
  • School
  • Home

• I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Team
  • Motivated

• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  

  Kurt Masur