Georg Solti Quotes
In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
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I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'
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It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.
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In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting.
