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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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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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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Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a child.
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I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
