Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
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I am permanently relaxed.
