Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
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Don't try to get involved with people on the Internet because it can be very dangerous. The whole point of 'Trust' is to inform people about this issue.
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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
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She gets too hungry for dinner at eight...She likes a crap game, but never come late...She'd never bother with people she hates...That's why the lady is a tramp.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
