Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.
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So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
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I go to a great church.
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You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
