Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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BecomeJumpingWatchOrganicIdea

In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

Andrew Lincoln

LifeCultureDeathYouthWalking

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Andy Lau

WaitMove OnRightMove

Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.

Jeffrey C. Hall

HistoryProblemFastPlaceBarriers

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

ReligionBetterObedienceActThan

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

Chloe Zhao

LifeStepPeopleWantVoteHim

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

Claire Messud

HistoryStorytellingOrderCharge

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Brigitte Nielsen

LoveHeartTimeBabyBe Different

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

HopeExcellenceCompassionAmerica

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

Sharon Stone

PeopleLogicPlacesDeadSafeWhere

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

Richard Ben-Veniste

IntelligenceFindTwoDisasterWell

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Rem Koolhaas

GreenWinningSmallDesignSomewhere

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

Martin Jacques

WorldFeedbackConsequencesWayFew

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