Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

Daniel Barenboim

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This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

John Darnielle

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I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

John Roberts

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Stephen King

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They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

Loni Anderson

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron

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Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all.

Josh Homme

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One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Josh Silver

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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps

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The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

Arthur Ganson

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My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Ariel Gore

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You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.

Antonio Brown

FutureThinkingPresentYouLoseUp

There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the state of American evangelicalism today. Some historical moments are telling. The rise of biblical criticism in the 19th century forced evangelicals to make choices about what they believed about the gospel.

Anthea Butler

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