Simon Rattle Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
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You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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God blessed me with great talent and good genetics. Plus, he blessed me with a good work ethic and a drive to want to be the best.
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.
