Lorin Maazel Quotes
I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
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I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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We didn't want it to end up in discussions where we would talk about whether this song needed to be more metal, whether I needed to scream more in that song or whether I shouldn't sing quite as much in those songs because metalheads wouldn't like that.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.