Daniel Barenboim Quotes
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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When we started, there were people who made fun of the music we made, danzon, cha-cha,‘That’s out of style, But still we have kept on going. It rescued all that history.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
