Leonard Slatkin Quotes
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
