Neeme Jarvi Quotes
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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I don't believe you! You're a liar! … Play it fucking loud!
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Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.
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When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.
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We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.
Charles B. Rangel -
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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Well, fans always root for the underdog.
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What I love about the term 'salad' is that it can appear in so many different forms and says a lot about the cook. It could be a simple as fresh green lettuces tossed with a basic vinaigrette, or it could be as hearty as a couscous salad with grilled shrimp.
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I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
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I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.
