Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.
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28% of the greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and from raising cattle, so we can do a much better job. … Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many body builders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Three Amigos!' Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
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One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.
