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“The situation here is not what it seems,” Qui-Gon pressed. “There is something else going on, Your Highness. There is no logic to the Federation’s actions. My instincts tell me they will destroy you.”
“We were, each of us… at a crossroads of public and private dynamics which had brought us to this frame-worthy moment. I thought of the different currents and crosscurrents of history which had formed, merged, broken apart, and reformed to create the opportunity for us to give something essential to each other’s lives.”
― Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
― Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
“Climb High
Climb Far
Your Goal
The Sky
Your Aim
The Star”
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Climb Far
Your Goal
The Sky
Your Aim
The Star”
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“Aaron Copland, whom Bernstein had met when he was in his junior year at Harvard and who would become a lifelong friend and mentor, wrote him encouraging letters. “Don’t expect miracles,” Copland advised the young man, “and don’t get depressed if nothing happens for a while. That’s NY.” But on August 25, 1943, his twenty-fifth birthday, Bernstein got his first professional break when Artur Rodzinski, then the music director of the New York Philharmonic, chose him to become his conducting assistant. “I have gone through all the conductors I know of in my mind,” Rodzinski explained to his new assistant, “and I finally asked God whom I should take, and God said, ‘Take Bernstein.”
― Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
― Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
“It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
“The 7 Secrets of Overcoming Your Haters
1. Identify your haters.
2. Study your haters.
3. Understand your haters.
4. Confront your haters.
5. Admonish your haters.
6. Avoid your haters.
7. Ignore your haters.”
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1. Identify your haters.
2. Study your haters.
3. Understand your haters.
4. Confront your haters.
5. Admonish your haters.
6. Avoid your haters.
7. Ignore your haters.”
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