"Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress."

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Leonard Slatkin

#Mistress Quotes #Music Is Quotes #Possessive Quotes

“We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.”
“Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.”
“I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and carbon from the air. And if we don't do that we are looking at some range of catastrophe.”
“I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.”
“God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.”
“When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.”
“Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.”
“To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life ...”

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