Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  

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• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

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• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

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• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

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• I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

  

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• Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

  

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• Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

  

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• I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • World
  • Different