Isaac Stern Quotes

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • Movie
  • High

• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Fire
  • Yourself

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Scene

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Once I got started acting I loved it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Acting
  • Loved
  • Started

• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Medical

• The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

  

  Bonnie McKee

• It is what it is, it is what you make it.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot

• I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Couple
  • Choices

• In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  

  Doc Hastings
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

  

  Isaac Stern
  • Music
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  • Conductor