Bronisław Huberman Quotes
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
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Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.
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My nature just changes.
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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
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One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
