Andre Kostelanetz Quotes
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
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Socialists do not propose to substitute the domination of society by one privileged class for that of another. They seek to abolish class distinctions altogether. The abolition of classes is fundamental to the Socialist conception of society.
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All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
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Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
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Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
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I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
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The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
