Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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Let us have peace.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.
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We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.