"I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes."

-- Claudio Abbado

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“You have to specialize the product.”
“There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.”
“We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.”
“Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.”
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
“How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!”
“I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they call The Sacrifice Zones of America and report on the current state of our environmental calamity.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ayelet Waldman from Apr 27, 2010

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