Eugene Ormandy Quotes

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

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• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Same
  • Makeup
  • Inside

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Personality
  • Intelligence

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• He Brendan Bracken had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • Hair

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Important
  • Value

• I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Music
  • Career
  • College

• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Work
  • Rest

• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Future

• More and more smaller entities, such as Politico or TechCrunch, have been able to come out of nowhere and own entities. Dealbook, like them, now has an even greater opportunity, through additional resources, to drill down and offer even more breaking news and deep analysis of the issues that matter to our audience.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Opportunity
  • Deep

• I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • Home
  • Breakfast

• I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

  

  Claire Scovell LaZebnik
  • Science
  • Hate

• Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • States
  • Chilled

• Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • Character
  • Story
  • Stitch

• I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Thinking
  • Beating