Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

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• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Think
  • Space
  • Matter

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Fame

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Mother
  • Passion
  • Courage

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Year

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Interested
  • Not Interested

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Lying
  • Said

• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Age
  • Small

• Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • She
  • Career
  • Beginning

• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Men
  • Birth

• Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Single
  • Health
  • Quality

• In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Character
  • Question
  • Fighting

• I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pressure

• I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reason