Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

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• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Meaningful

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Existence

• I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Fun
  • Sexy
  • Have Fun

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
  • Fat

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Live
  • Say
  • Lie

• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Religion
  • Pigeonhole
  • Mathangi

• Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • School
  • Nice
  • Smile

• Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• 'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Family
  • America

• Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

  

  Anna Freud
  • Women

• There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • World
  • Today