Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musi...cian. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny's life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn't let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Bernstein: The Mob put up the money for the club but the Mob doesn't consider homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle. Todd...y: Kill him, but mustn't kiss him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don't feel right spending your money stop.... There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler." Any answer? Charles Foster Kane: Yes--Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thompson: Nothing particular the matter with him, they tell me, just ... Bernstein: Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. ...Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nati...ons), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »