Kathleen Battle Quotes
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.Kathleen Battle
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
Jack Keane -
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk -
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom -
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles -
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
Camille Claudel -
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
Kara Swisher -
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
Ian Doescher -
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
Francesca Annis -
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer -
I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
Yoko Ono
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I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
Dan Gelber -
When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'
Omari Hardwick -
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
Olivier Theyskens -
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
Oswald Chambers -
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
Ted Nelson -
I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments.
Beth Revis
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Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey -
I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
Tatyana Ali -
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
A. A. Milne -
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
Kage Baker -
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.
Kathleen Battle