Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
