Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
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If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
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People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
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My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
