Zubin Mehta Quotes
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
Quotes to Explore
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.
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I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.
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Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.
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Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
