Daniel Barenboim Quotes
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
