Botstein Leon Quotes & Sayings

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you. — Leon Botstein

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up?? — Tyrese Gibson

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity. — Leon Botstein

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. — Leon Botstein

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine. — Viola Di Grado

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them. — Chris Gabrieli

Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David — Carla Lynne Hall

This is the man who will be my grandfather - the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time. — Wendell Berry

Those who act like a mirror and show the true face of the nation to the nation itself are the real heroes of the nation, because all a nation needs is to see his real face, to see his faults! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. — Leon Botstein

Don't look at Jason or even in his direction again because if you do, and it pisses of Dominic and results in Jason gettin' hurt again, I'll kill you. Understand, fatso?" she asked and kicked me again. "Yeah," I rasped. "Good." She spat on me then turned and walked off with her friends. — L.A. Casey

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change. — Leon Botstein

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values. — Leon Botstein