Simon Rattle Quotes
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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I'm too much of a big kid.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
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When you do a remix, obviously you get a beautiful melody, you get the beautiful vocals - everything is already set up. You already have a base, which means all I gotta to do is create the music behind, 'cuz it's already beautiful.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.
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Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.
