Kathleen Battle Quotes

Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

Kathleen Battle

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• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Everyone
  • To Love

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Christian
  • March

• Remember we're all in this alone.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Remember
  • Alone

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Time
  • God
  • Different

• It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Money
  • Attitude
  • Tree

• I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

  

  Phil Robertson

• There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.

  

  Om Malik
  • Up
  • Work
  • May

• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • People
  • Up

• In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • inspirational
  • Excuse

• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  

  Buddha
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Spiritual
  • Appropriate
  • Classical