Zubin Mehta Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
