Zubin Mehta Quotes
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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We care about margins.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
