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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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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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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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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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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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
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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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I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
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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].
