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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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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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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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.
