Carnegie Quotes

• When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Trust, Play, Work Out

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• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Educational, Years, Class

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• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  Isaac Stern

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Journey, Cities, Ambitious

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.

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• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  Laura San Giacomo

  New York, Pittsburgh, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

  Jeffrey Archer

  Team, Interesting, England

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• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teaching, Foundation, Advancement

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• Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

  Patsy Cline

  Real, Fabulous, Bigs

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• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Memorable, Firsts, Appearance

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Selfish, Home

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• As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Mother, School, Boys

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Hero, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.

  Donal Henahan

  School, Play, Europe

  "Dazzling, No More" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 18, 1977.

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• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  David Nasaw

  Men, Mad, Idiot

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• When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.

  Paul Gigot

  Real, War, People

  Estate Tax Debate, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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• If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.

  Melinda Gates

  Book, Government, Risk

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• In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.

  Allen Newell

  Years, Effort, Psychology

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• How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

  Mark Steyn

  Practice, Get Away, Halls

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• We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Years, Genius

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• The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

  John Tesh

  Running, Dream, Simple

  John Tesh (2012). “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.

  Mario Andretti

  Toms, Replaced

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• The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

  Judith Rodin

  Years, John D Rockefeller, Genius

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