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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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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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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I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
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I'm a blue collar guy.
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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
