The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. Th...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in dai...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same per...
DANIEL BARENBOIM To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy becau...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life...
DANIEL BARENBOIM For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
DANIEL BARENBOIM There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end a...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature,...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the t...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
DANIEL BARENBOIM We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, cla...
DANIEL BARENBOIM An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the rich...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders...
DANIEL BARENBOIM When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward ete...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human exi...
DANIEL BARENBOIM It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think...
DANIEL BARENBOIM The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Is...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in...
DANIEL BARENBOIM For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 2...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a un...
DANIEL BARENBOIM We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give mor...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? ...There is no logic to this claim.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national tre...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I just thought that in this place, discussing a book written together with a Palestinian, it shows l...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Let them do it. Go right ahead.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from...
DANIEL BARENBOIM They're a wonderful bunch of people. These young people share the strongest passion in their life, w...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? When I say that a uniform should be worn to the right p...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two ins...
DANIEL BARENBOIM My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the que...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the id...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But t...
DANIEL BARENBOIM The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the t...
DANIEL BARENBOIM There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality o...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million do...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to mus...
DANIEL BARENBOIM More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be aga...
DANIEL BARENBOIM You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducti...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want...
DANIEL BARENBOIM You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
DANIEL BARENBOIM The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I wil...
DANIEL BARENBOIM US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the fac...
DANIEL BARENBOIM In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Every note is a lifetime for itself.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony th...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
DANIEL BARENBOIM 'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. I...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I don't like possessions.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd d...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. T...
DANIEL BARENBOIM The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've go...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
DANIEL BARENBOIM It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's...
DANIEL BARENBOIM When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
DANIEL BARENBOIM I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
DANIEL BARENBOIM People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are impor...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it e...
DANIEL BARENBOIM You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most imp...
DANIEL BARENBOIM On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and rem...
DANIEL BARENBOIM No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rath...
DANIEL BARENBOIM He looks fine, feels fine, he wants to go home.
YAIR BARENBOIM Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be...
DANIEL BURNHAM Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information...
DANIEL GOLEMAN A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even like...
DANIEL HUMM Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to ...
DANIEL BOONE Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so ...
DANIEL HUMM Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther...
DANIEL HUMM I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at...
DANIEL HUMM I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM You've got to listen to your guests.
DANIEL HUMM Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects o...
DANIEL HUMM If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a l...
DANIEL HUMM I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonfu...
DANIEL HUMM The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple te...
DANIEL HUMM What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows...
DANIEL HUMM I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a...
DANIEL HUMM I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.
DANIEL HUMM A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the ...
DANIEL HUMM History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of hous...
DANIEL HUMM Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you ...
DANIEL HUMM My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and peop...
DANIEL HUMM I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi...
DANIEL HUMM I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav...
DANIEL HUMM At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that lo...
DANIEL HUMM We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs...
DANIEL HUMM No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. Bu...
DANIEL HUMM People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxi...
DANIEL HUMM Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
DANIEL DREW We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running expe...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dis...
DANIEL HUMM Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very oft...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
DANIEL BOONE We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
DANIEL WEBSTER Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of...
DANIEL HANNAN But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companie...
DANIEL YERGIN But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a bu...
DANIEL YERGIN I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It giv...
DANIEL TAMMET Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...
DANIEL KEYES I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the ...
DANIEL GOLEMAN You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
DANIEL WEBSTER If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples...
DANIEL WEBSTER Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touche...
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commer...
DANIEL WEBSTER Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts o...
DANIEL WEBSTER New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transpa...
DANIEL GILLIES I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the sou...
DANIEL GILLIES Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy p...
DANIEL GILLIES I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad foo...
DANIEL GILLIES Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
DANIEL GILLIES Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
DANIEL EVERETT It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA