Erich Leinsdorf Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

Sam Harris

#2. I really hate to write.

Jack Kerouac

#3. When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Erich Leinsdorf

#4. I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

Erich Leinsdorf

#5. The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Erich Leinsdorf

#6. No matter how great the book is, Its translator will never be famous as the author!Better Write!

Me

#7. A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

Erich Leinsdorf

#8. When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

Erich Leinsdorf

#9. Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?

Murray Rothbard

#10. I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Erich Leinsdorf

#11. I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

Lily Collins

#12. The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Erich Leinsdorf

#13. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.

Anonymous

#14. We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

Simon Toyne