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James Levine

"We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution."

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Donna Grant

"In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants."

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Donna Grant

"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."

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Donna Grant

"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."

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Donna Grant

"For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners."

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Donna Grant

"We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion."

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Donna Grant

"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival."

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Donna Grant

"As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them."

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Donna Grant

"The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort."

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Donna Grant

"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

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James Levine
"I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always."

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James Levine
"I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment."

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James Levine
"It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it."

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James Levine
"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."

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James Levine
"At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching."

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James Levine
"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."

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James Levine
"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility."

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James Levine
"Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it."

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James Levine
"So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers."

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James Levine
"You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another."

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