Zubin Mehta Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.
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This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
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One shouldn't know the future.
