Placido Domingo Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.
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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
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My strength is my enthusiasm.
