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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ↗

— Norman Thomas

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There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain. ↗

— Jim Thome

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I walk where I choose to walk. ↗

— Norman Thomas

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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ↗

— Norman Thomas

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I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it. ↗

— William M. Thomas

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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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