Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
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I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
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After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
