Andris Nelsons Quotes

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Career
  • Player
  • Top

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Done
  • Past
  • Achievement

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Driving
  • New York

• There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Someone
  • Impression

• We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Hurt
  • Creative
  • Blame

• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society
  • Crush

• Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

  

  Al Stewart
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.

  

  Alec Berg
  • World
  • Fun

• Here's the deal with 'Bastard.' I loved that show, and for me, it was such a palate cleanser, going from writing urban vernacular and crime to, essentially, iambic pentameter. I loved the mythology of that world based on history, but what it came down to was money.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • World
  • Writing
  • Money

• The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Money
  • Hand

• Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Attention
  • Female
  • Ready

• When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Happy
  • Expect
  • Absurd

• on Public Works Projects You see what I felt they should have done for our first public works project is build a giant wall across the entire border of Canada...because THAT'S where the cold air comes from!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Done
  • Air
  • Cold

• I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

  

  Sean Paul
  • Real
  • Responsibility

• I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

  

  Andris Nelsons