#conducting

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

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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

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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? ↗

— Dimitri Mitropoulos

#cage #conducting #does #enter #how

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. ↗

— Placido Domingo

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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#been #conducting #gotten #i #initial

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

#change #climate #climate change #conducting #every

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. ↗

— Morton Gould

#basically #being #composer #conducting #done

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

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