Adena Friedman Quotes
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.
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We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
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My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.
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Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.
