Georg Solti Quotes
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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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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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.
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When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
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I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
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People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
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Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.
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The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
