Zubin Mehta Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I believe in music.
