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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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 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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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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I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.
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My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
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The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.'
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It's hard to start from the bottom.
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As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
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I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
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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].
