Leonard Slatkin Quotes
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
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We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
