Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

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When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

Jeff Baena

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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

John Ratzenberger

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I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life.

Lizz Wright

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I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Jonathan King

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I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

Drea De Matteo

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I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Seth Godin

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I know some women are intimidated by makeup.

Tyra Banks

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That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

Richard M. Daley

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In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

Richard Attenborough

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A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

Marisa Tomei

WomenLiveWomanManFreeVoice

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