Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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Fear controls you.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.