Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.
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The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
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Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.
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If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.
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Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
