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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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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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
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See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.
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However, if I am confirmed to this position my first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.
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Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.
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I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.