Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.
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He cares deeply about it in a personal way and has been one of the least reluctant among CEOs to talk about it in a meaningful way.
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Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
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Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.
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I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
