Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. John Abizaid American Soldier More John Abizaid Quotes 0
But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. Peter Maxwell Davies English Composer More Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes 0
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. Douglas Feith American Public Servant More Douglas Feith Quotes 0
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. Peter Garrett Australian Musician More Peter Garrett Quotes 0
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards. Janis Karpinski American Soldier More Janis Karpinski Quotes 0
The real art of conducting consists in transitions. Gustav Mahler Austrian Composer More Gustav Mahler Quotes 0
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. Barbara Olson American Journalist More Barbara Olson Quotes 0
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Musician More Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes 0
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Musician More Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes 0
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will. Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Musician More Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes 0
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Musician More Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes 0
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. David Amram American Composer More David Amram Quotes 0
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. Aldrich Ames American Criminal More Aldrich Ames Quotes 0
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. Dick Cheney American Vice President More Dick Cheney Quotes 0
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. Julian Assange Australian Activist More Julian Assange Quotes 0
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. George Combe American Educator More George Combe Quotes 0
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors. Carter Burwell American Composer More Carter Burwell Quotes 0
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. Placido Domingo Spanish Musician More Placido Domingo Quotes 0
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. Lara St. John Canadian Musician More Lara St. John Quotes 0
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims. Ayatollah Khamenei Iranian Statesman More Ayatollah Khamenei Quotes 0
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth. James Levine American Musician More James Levine Quotes 0
At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used. Charles Jules Henry Nicole Scientist More Charles Jules Henry Nicole Quotes 0
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. Harry Mathews American Author More Harry Mathews Quotes 0
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. Christa McAuliffe American Astronaut More Christa McAuliffe Quotes 0
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. Bobby McFerrin American Musician More Bobby McFerrin Quotes 0