Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.
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I feel like social media is something that has yet to be considered a viable platform for marketing in the industry.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.
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By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
