Zubin Mehta Quotes
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
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Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
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Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
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Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictions where it used to be mostly the reverse.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
