"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Careers Quotes #Scary Quotes #Conducting Quotes

“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.”
“Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.”

Source : "Medici Seal". Book by Theresa Breslin, August 3, 2006.
“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
“And the meek shall inherit the earth,”
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
“I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.”
“Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.”

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