Joan Sutherland Quotes

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

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• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Like

• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Trouble
  • Your
  • Troubled

• 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.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Character
  • Father
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Thinking
  • Innovation
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• 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?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Books
  • Holland
  • Publicize

• My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Funny

• 'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• 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.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• She's Beyoncé, and I'm Jay-Z's new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• You would not believe my suffering... Death would be sweeter... I can't go another day without seeing you. Atrocious madness, it's the end. I won't be able to work any more. Malevolent goddess! And yet I love you furiously.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Death

• I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Fortune

• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Interesting
  • Crazy
  • Purpose

• 'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Why

• I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

  

  Joan Sutherland