Leonard Slatkin Quotes
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
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As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.
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I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
