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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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Different
  • Country
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Family
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Live
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • Disrespect

• In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Peace
  • Create
  • Prosper

• In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Fall

• One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

  

  Cara Black
  • Power
  • Movement
  • Fitness

• I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Evangelist

• I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Knows
  • Bones
  • Marrow

• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Like
  • Consistency

• I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• I would never disrespect a man's way of life, especially if they're happy.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Men
  • Way
  • Disrespect

• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Consciousness

• 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.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Way
  • Felt
  • Composer