Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
