Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.
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I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
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What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
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I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
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The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
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New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.
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As long as he doesn't take my job.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
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Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
