Could you imagine anyone considering to bring a business into Carnegie? Or buying a home in Carnegie with all of the gloom and doom portrayed by our local newspaper?
Larry Harkovich
Related I would not be gloom and doom because it is not at all gloom and doom. PATRICK FORD We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands ... CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share i... ERNEST THOMPSON SETON I went to Carnegie Mellon. PATINA MILLER Now that's not a doom and gloom statement. it's not something anyone should get upset about, HILTON SUTTON Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music... ISAAC STERN I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward. The example of grea... ALBERT EINSTEIN I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I fe... SANFORD I. WEILL How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” “I-95. BRYAN WAY The Carnegie Historical Society had records of it. DOROTHY KELLY Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to o... SAM WELLER An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall OSCAR LEVANT Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm... LAWRENCE KUDLOW One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 the... RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York. LAURA SAN GIACOMO WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is ... AMBROSE BIERCE Andrew Carnegie has gifted progressive philanthropy to the world. GEORGE REID I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u... DALE T. MORTENSEN In many ways we're replicating what happens in American sport, where players come through the local ... GARY HETHERINGTON Separate yourself from the gloom and doom seers. You won't do well with them SOTONYE ANGA John Malkovich was very taken back and impressed with Carnegie Abbey. He toured all the grounds and ... ANTHONY MARCELLA When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie H... ITZHAK PERLMAN My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced o... DAVID ROCKEFELLER An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. OSCAR LEVANT I guess looking from the outside you could probably put think [it's all turmoil]. I mean we lost 14 ... DREW MITCHELL What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice. ALISON GOPNIK Carnegie Mellon's ... effort will, for the first time, establish a public-private partnership that w... RICK SANTORUM I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice. ALAN KING Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. DARYN KAGAN How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. SA'DI We've lost some players already, (but) we're not all of a sudden going to make it a gloom-and-doom s... HERMAN EDWARDS Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry. PATSY CLINE I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. FAREED ZAKARIA I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy. RAGHURAM RAJAN The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this centu... C. EVERETT KOOP Sondheim Etc. Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It), BERNADETTE PETERS Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as b... ERIK PEVERNAGIE There's no gloom and doom here. All of us have been through tough times before. CHARLEY CASSERLY Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a revere... ROGER TORY PETERSON I can't believe the doom and gloom expressed in some quarters, STEVE GIBSON Wayne County chose Carnegie Learning because of its focus on teaching critical thinking and problem ... MIKE RUTHERFORD It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall. MEGAN HILTY I expect this to happen, so it's not exactly all doom and gloom [for WAP]. BERTRAND BIDAUD We got fed up with, as soon as you mentioned Sabbath, the gloom and doom. I just wanted a lighter si... TONY IOMMI The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d... SHELLEY BERMAN Carnegie Hall is at the center of the music world, and when our orchestra appears there, people will... HANS GRAF The community must initiate this. It cannot be done by PAT. Jeff Stephan, executive director of the ... DOROTHY KELLY Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then... VANESSA CARLTON To be all gloom and doom about what happened is to miss what New Orleans is all about. JERRY MAHER My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and T... RONALD KESSLER Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes o... AYELET WALDMAN I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surr... LAURA OSNES It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the... ZUBIN MEHTA Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, a... SKITCH HENDERSON You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play... ITZHAK PERLMAN It's been horribly grim this week. There's a high level of gloom and doom in the market and a low le... AL GOLDMAN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Would you rather see Yo-Yo Ma in Carnegie Hall or in the Houston Astrodome? I think people around th... GREG ERWIN Would you rather see Yo-Yo Ma in Carnegie Hall or in the Houston Astrodome? ... I think people aroun... GREG ERWIN We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and sq... ANTHONY POWELL A lot of people think wars lead to pessimism and gloom and doom. But the stock market has usually ra... DICK MCCABE I can't believe the doom and gloom which is being expressed in some quarters. STEVE GIBSON You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Gretchen and Larry each bring something different and exciting to the NASHVILLE STAR party. We are i... LIBBY HANSEN The losers are obviously Patrick and Toll shareholders today. The winner is anyone interested in buy... GEORGE CLAPHAM It's every musician's dream to play in Carnegie Hall. Just think of the musical history that's taken... NEIL ANDERSON There's been so much doom and gloom around here. There is a rainbow at the end of the storm. DWANE CASEY It's not quite as easy to sell the business and head to Florida. There's a lot to it. There's a lot ... DOUGLAS BOYCE The Carnegie Cup is always a difficult race against good competition. This year was no exception. Ya... CURTIS JORDAN My first-ever job in the movie business, I was an art student at Carnegie Mellon, and they were shoo... GREG MOTTOLA You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that'... MARGARET ATWOOD With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire... CLAY CLARK There's so much doom and gloom in semiconductors, any little prayer of hope will be well-received. GREG GORBATENKO I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't righ... DAVID M. KELLEY The Anne Frank Story,?a new exhibit at Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, ?gives you a lot of b... KATHY SILVESTRI I don't believe in the 'gloom and doom' we're hearing that planes will fall out of the sky. But ther... LOU MARCOCCIO [This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk q... MARY STUART At 14,000, I think you have local investors buying into the market. MARCELO MESQUITA I love working with Larry. He's very special to me. We work so well together that I couldn't imagine... BARBARA EDEN The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to du... C. EVERETT KOOP Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later dis... BILLY PORTER During the vehicle buying process, consumers tell us they put a lot of research into the car or truc... ERIC HOFFMAN There's quite a bit of speculative selling because of the doom and gloom on the demand side. That de... ORRIN MIDDLETON We give our volunteer fire company $27,000 and $35,000 for a truck plus insurance. We give them a lo... DOROTHY KELLY The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and ... JOHN TESH It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite... GEOFF MULGAN We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where ... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH If consumers knew what they were getting into earlier in the home buying or refinancing process, the... BRIAN SULLIVAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Today, it's easier than ever to make home ownership a reality. Whether it's buying a home, renovatin... CHARLES LAMBERT I never saw pictures of black people portrayed in a positive vein -- of young black people going to ... ZAKIYYAH MUHAMMAD The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket... MICHAEL BERGDAHL Voice Over Internet Protocol has become a media and technology favorite, portrayed as the service th... BILL HARDEKOPF The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it... JOSHUA BELL As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ANDREW CARNEGIE I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abili... CANDICE OLSON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti... JEFFREY ARCHER It is difficult for me to imagine this company without Larry. His leadership contributions are wide-... CHARLES BURKETT
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