Daniel Barenboim Quotes
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
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I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
