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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.


Kurt Masur

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LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
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JOE GIRARD No one had officially thanked World War II vets. It took over 50 years for Washington, D.C., to come...
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BOBBY WELCH the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II.
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KELSEY GRAMMER I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country ha...
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MARTIN FILLER The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
RAMSEY CLARK He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer.
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ROGER STONE The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men w...
J. ANTHONY LUKAS I think there's a high interest in World War II now. We're losing the veterans. It's important to re...
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MONICA CROWLEY The Melvin probably was the only destroyer to sink a battleship in World War II.
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EDWARD ZWICK There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN He had no warning, no opportunity to stop. He didn't even see him.
WAYNE SHELOR I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents wa...
WAGNER MOURA In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.
DANNY M. COHEN Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cas...
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JOHN GLENN World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
JIM WEBB World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
DAVID AYER Today, 90 percent of them are World War II veterans, now in their 80s.
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KURT VONNEGUT I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up f...
KURT BROWNING Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded t...
KURT VONNEGUT My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be...
KURT COBAIN Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don...
KURT EICHENWALD All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Braz...
KURT BRAUNOHLER The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...
KURT VONNEGUT I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important thin...
KURT COBAIN I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro co...
KURT BUSIEK In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or ...
KURT ANGLE I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge...
KURT RUSSELL Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do n...
KURT SUTTER My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosom...
KURT COBAIN I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a...
KURT ELLING Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth i...
KURT EICHENWALD I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment ...
KURT VONNEGUT I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best th...
KURT VONNEGUT Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that...
KURT EICHENWALD When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been...
KURT VONNEGUT I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our da...
KURT ELLING John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
KURT COBAIN The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very muc...
KURT VONNEGUT I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the America...
KURT COBAIN If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying...
KURT COBAIN Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.
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