Juan Diego Florez Quotes
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.
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It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
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I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.
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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.
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The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific.
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I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court.
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I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.
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If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."
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I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
