Sol Hurok Quotes

If they're (his clients) not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

Sol Hurok

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• To Be
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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

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• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

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• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

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• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

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• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

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• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

  

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• What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

  

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  • Music
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• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

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• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

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• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  

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• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

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• Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

  

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• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

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• I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

  

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• I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

  

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• Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

  

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• A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

  

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• Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.

  

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• They've gone out of their way to be part of the community. I'm prouder of that than the number of wins.

  

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• It is as deeply implanted in our nature to breed children as it is to eat and drink.

  

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• If they're (his clients) not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

  

  Sol Hurok
  • Nature
  • Artist
  • To Be