I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
James Levine
Recitation: by Male by Female
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
Mel Brooks
GreatKnowStageSeeGotLike
I made a naive decision, and I joined the Navy. I figured I would use the G.I. Bill to pay for any college I wanted. I dreamed of going to Julliard to study music and acting.
Angelica Ross
MusicDecisionCollegeActingNavy
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.
Amitava Kumar
LifeChangeCreativeBookCriticism
I know I don't suck at being me. I'm really good at being me.
Shura
GoodMeKnowBeingSuckReally
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft
NatureKnowledgeManMeWorldLearn
Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.
Lucy Powell
GoodBestMeMovingMeasureEconomy
Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
Lisa Lampanelli
BestPeopleMeAdviceLoseFeathers
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.
Brian Setzer
PeopleSongProudYouUniquePlay
I am an optimist of the first order.
Alice Waters
I AmFirstOptimistOrderAm
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act prudently. And even if we don't, these problems are incapable of obliterating all of humanity, let alone destroying the Earth. No, the real End of Days will happen slowly, as the Sun ages.
Seth Shostak
ChangeGrowthTodayAloneWarSun
I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.
Novak Djokovic
MindTryTennisAlwaysLittleOff
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
Ridley Scott
HistoryBestFactsDownTryPaper
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