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'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
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I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
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Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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One shouldn't know the future.
