Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King -
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers -
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
Rand Paul -
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
Venus Williams
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
Najib Razak -
You fall for who the chemistry is with.
Vanessa Paradis -
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken -
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
Gaby Hoffmann -
You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,You cannot shut the windows of the skyThrough which Aurora shows her brightening face.
Aurora -
It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.
Pope Benedict XVI
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One falls in love without thinking!
Anita Hassanandani Reddy -
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Paul Theroux -
I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
Dick Spring -
I'm a strong believer in the things that I want to do.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr. -
When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
Craig Sager -
We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.
Alex Campbell
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I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.
Alistair Overeem -
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
Adolf Hitler -
I don't put my name on stuff.
Fred Eychaner -
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.
Esa-Pekka Salonen