"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."

-- Eduard Shevardnadze

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“In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.”
“I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.”
“We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.”
“Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important”
“Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.”
“The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form.”
“The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.”

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