Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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I am a normal guy.
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Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
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As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
