Jessye Norman Quotes

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

Jessye Norman

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Love
  • Girl

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

  

  John F. Kennedy

• I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and I have, like, a mom and two baby deer that come by all the time, and my dogs and the squirrels are in a full-on feud every morning.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

  

  Lex Luger
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Past

• There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

  

  Elizabeth Warren

• I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Life
  • World
  • Mind