Andris Nelsons Quotes
I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.
Quotes to Explore
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Money just draws flies.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
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My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
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Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
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If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.
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I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.
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Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.
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I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.
