Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
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You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
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My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.
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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
