Donna Leon Quotes

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

Donna Leon

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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

Pat Travers
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Gael Garcia Bernal
- Better
- motivation
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Maggie Kuhn
- Life
- Goal
- Stage
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

Rachel Swirsky
- People
- Up
- Good
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Hanna Rosin
- Men
- Women
- Power
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Adam Clarke
- Men
- Progress
- Said