Andris Nelsons Quotes
Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.
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Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.
