Andris Nelsons Quotes
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Playing in those bars where people really don't care about your music really gives you an appreciation for when you get to a concert, and people are singing your original music - it's been a great journey, but I definitely didn't have an interest in music as a kid until I was a teenager.
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There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
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The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit.
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And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
