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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."

"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."

"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."

"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."

"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."

"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."

"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that."

"At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music."

"Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra."

"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."

"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
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