Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
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I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.
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I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
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As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.
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With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
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I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
