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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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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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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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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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I wasn't the prettiest girl in the room, but I learned to carry myself with confidence - that's how you make the best impression on people.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
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Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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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.
