Joan Sutherland Quotes
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'
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Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
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I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.
