Leon Botstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
-- Leon Botstein

#School #Clerks #Would Be
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generationâ€™s level of knowledge and sense of values.
-- Leon Botstein

#Generations #Levels #Definitions
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.
-- Leon Botstein

#Character #Resilience #Fundamentals
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
-- Leon Botstein

#Education #Running #College
I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
-- Leon Botstein

#Prejudice #Share #Subjects
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
-- Leon Botstein

#Artist #Faculty Members #Physicians

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!
I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

Leon Botstein famous quotes

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