Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
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How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago.
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The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.
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Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.
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Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.
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Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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I went to every game last year so I know who he is.
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
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In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.
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I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.
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Being an American musician means being adventurous.
