Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes
If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
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When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
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If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
