Andris Nelsons Quotes
People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I take my work seriously.
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
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I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.
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Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
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People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.
