Conducting Quotes
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It is true the risk for travel is greater for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.
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That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
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I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.
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Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
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And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
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The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.
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Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
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For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
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I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
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I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.
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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.
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Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
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I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
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I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
