Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

Daniel Barenboim

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

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  • Sin
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  • Same
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• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

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  • Chance
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  • Number

• I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Responsible
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• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Pain
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  • Ecstasy

• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Paris

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Children
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• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Books
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• Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question
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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

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• But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  

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  • World
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• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

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  • Good
  • Always
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  Fergus Henderson
  • Up
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  • Garden

• I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.

  

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  • Soul
  • Night
  • Morning

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago