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

• 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

• Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Strong

• The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

  

  Bill Frist
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Life

• There's been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in theaters, with King at the center, in the 50 years since these events happened, when we have biopics on all kinds of ridiculous people. And nothing on King? No cinematic representation that's meaningful and centered.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Picture
  • Independent

• I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.

  

  Bruce Oldfield
  • Women

• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

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

  

  Placido Domingo