Isaac Stern Quotes
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
