Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Up
  • Guy
  • New

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • Party
  • Present

• My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Grandparents

• As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Simple
  • Style

• And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • Art
  • Painting

• Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Player

• As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation I think we need to band together and say, never again. Never will we exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Trying
  • Used
  • Income

• If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

  

  Van Jones
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Past

• I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Trying
  • Process
  • Wells