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.

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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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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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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
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Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.
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I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.
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I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
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I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.
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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.