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

• Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.

  

  Basil Bunting

• 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

• If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Help
  • Question
  • Passion

• The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

  

  William Morris
  • Important
  • Art
  • House

• I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Wise

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

  

  Andris Nelsons