Daniel Barenboim Quotes
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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My sister would write plays, and I would act in them and perform them for my parents. They were on the comedy side, very much inspired by 'The Amanda Show.'
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
