Placido Domingo Quotes

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

Placido Domingo

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Responsibility
  • See
  • Teach

• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Volunteer

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Day
  • Mom
  • Ocean

• Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Love
  • Home
  • Father

• I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Enjoy

• Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Friend
  • Like
  • More

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only

• The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • High
  • Success
  • Effort

• I eat less, stretch, and work out.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Eat
  • Less

• Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Lazy

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• 'Tell me, then! What is so important?''Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!''I feel much the same. Say on.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Important

• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  

  Cyril Connolly

• Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Gold

• My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

  

  Jennifer Aniston

• Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, there are three different levels. I watch the first episode, and if I love it, I'm lockin' it in for the rest of the season. If I'm not too sure about it, I will maybe tune in the next week. It it's just terrible, then I'm done.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Music
  • Moved
  • Languages

• This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

  

  Placido Domingo