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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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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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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As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
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There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.
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Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.
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In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.
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Technology: No Place for Wimps!
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Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.
