Joyce DiDonato Quotes

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

Joyce DiDonato

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• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Home
  • Water

• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Choices
  • Cold
  • Decisions

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Single
  • Diversity

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one is exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Spring

• All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Listening
  • Trump
  • Angry

• Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

  

  Maxwell Caulfield
  • Grease

• I never watch my own films.

  

  Bill Nighy

• The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Time
  • Done
  • Strong

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Action
  • Tears

• During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

  

  Bob Beauprez

• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

  

  Aimee Teegarden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Girl

• As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes

• I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

  

  Leif Garrett

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Life
  • Need
  • Fit