Leonard Slatkin Quotes
There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.
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N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.
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I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
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We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.
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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
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There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
