Zubin Mehta Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I love India.
