Itzhak Perlman Quotes

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Myself

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Money
  • Done
  • Changes

• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • inspirational
  • Defeat

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • History
  • Best

• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Background
  • Observer

• There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Me
  • Work Hard

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Moment
  • Harm
  • Shot

• All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Writing
  • Kids

• A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Time
  • Kids

• If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • World
  • God
  • Guy

• Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Money
  • House
  • Singing

• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Worry

• One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Practice
  • Forget
  • Slowly