Zubin Mehta Quotes
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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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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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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We care about margins.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
