Andris Nelsons Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
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I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
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Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
