Placido Domingo Quotes

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power

• Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Stand

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Never

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• I listen to older music like AC/DC.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listen

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• 'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Taken
  • Difficult
  • Surprise

• Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Men
  • Nature
  • High

• We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Time
  • Art

• I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

  

  Mary Pierce

• If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

  

  Eric Millegan
  • People

• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

  

  Paul Scofield
  • Actor
  • Forget
  • Existence

• All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Ocean
  • Swimmer

• When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

  

  Placido Domingo