"I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes."

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Source : "The Unanswered Question" by David Cairns, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 1976.

Leonard Bernstein

#Answers Quotes

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”
“I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.”
“If you want to change something, you have to use new ways.”
“Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.”
“I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”
“Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.”

Source : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”
“I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.”
“The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.”

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