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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time

"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
First

"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
People

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

"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."
People

"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
Will

"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Music

"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
Music

"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
Idea

"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
People
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