Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
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The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.
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I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
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Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.
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I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
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Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.
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I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
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When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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“So this was love then – wanting to give only pleasure to the beloved; constantly searching your mind for love tokens that would bring a smile to her lips or a sparkle to her eyes. He deeply regretted it had come so late in life, but since his heart’s desire was Eleanor who was so much younger than he, it could have been no other way. He was grateful it had come at all.”
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Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
