Georg Solti Quotes
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Figure out who you are.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
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Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.
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This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I do definitely get boxed into this #BlackGirlMagic social activist category. But it makes me think, "Well, maybe people are able to start thinking about that concept earlier and will hopefully be inspired to delve deeper into it and research it more." I think that's just how the media works. It's just very good at compartmentalizing human beings.
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Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
