"An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium."

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Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

Leonard Slatkin

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“When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.”
“The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine”

Source : "After 20 Years, The Indigo Girls Go Indie". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009.
“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.”
“I really believe you get what you're supposed to get.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.”
“We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.”
“To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”
“I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.”

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