Zubin Mehta Quotes

Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • See
  • Product
  • Common Sense

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Real
  • Me
  • Feel

• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Experience
  • Inspiration
  • Psychology

• As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Folks

• He watched her. He took his time.Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?Perhaps.Perhaps not.Who can tell?

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Time

• Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work

• You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

  

  James Daly
  • Business
  • Remember

• I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

  

  Jamie Bell

• We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Job

• You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Music
  • Different
  • Advice

• Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Sounds
  • Jamming
  • Cymbals

• Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Family

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life
  • Treatment
  • Shameful

• Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

  

  Zubin Mehta