David McCord Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.
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At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
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We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
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I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
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Don't think too much of style.
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If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.
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One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.
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Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree
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Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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