Leonard Slatkin Quotes
The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.
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The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
