Zubin Mehta Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.Any fool can do it;There ain't nothing to it.Nobody knows how we got toThe top of the hill.But since we're on our way down,We might as well enjoy the ride.
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Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
