Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
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My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.
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I love eating healthy and doing the yoga thing, because I think I'm going to live to a thousand doing so. And that's because I don't want to leave here so soon. I want to stick around as long as I can, but I know that's not going to be the case. We're all going.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!
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Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
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If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
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Do you think that it is possible to have a dialogue with the representatives of Lugansk and Donetsk if they all are being prosecuted and subject to criminal proceedings? That is exactly why the Minsk Agreements establish to adopt an amnesty law. However, it has not been adopted.
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We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
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Guys are pretty unhappy about what happened. It's sad that we went out that way, but at the same time I think 20-10 ain't bad. We fell off toward the end of the season but overall I think we did some things that no one expected us to do.
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There were a lot of days when I thought maybe this isn't what I should be doing. There've been a lot of days where you get to the point where you're like, "I don't know if I've got the will to even do this." It's the type of game that doesn't let you walk away so that's what happened, I just kept coming back to it until something really happened for me.
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Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
