"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.”
“We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426
“I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.”
“Her, Me, whipped cream, handcuffs. Any questions?”
“Agreements are always the product of time and place.”
“The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.”
“I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.”
“I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.”

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