Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.
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Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
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Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
