Renee Fleming Quotes

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Renee Fleming

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• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Building

• He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Believe
  • True
  • Free

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• All of my music is honest.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

  

  bell hooks
  • Mother
  • House
  • Smile

• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

  

  Kathe Kollwitz
  • Power
  • Inspired

• I just take the fights and do what I love.

  

  Donald Cerrone

• You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

  

  Martin Landau

• Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Why
  • Freedom

• I could have been like so many other bloggers or 'influencers' who just have their agent and are more like celebrities, but I've never wanted it to be only like that. Of course, I still want that part in my life, but I also wanted to create a brand.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Life

• Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, mathematical certainty. It is not even mathematical truth, certain or otherwise. It is, and must be, mathematical explanation.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Truth

• 'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life

• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • Reality

• I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• People like Thomas Aquinas would say we can't talk about God as a creator because we can only have in our heads the idea of a human creator and that can't apply to God. We can't even say that God exists because our notion of existence is too limited to apply to God. People were instructed to think about this in those terms.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • God

• Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

  

  Craig Kielburger
  • Child
  • Priority
  • Issue

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Conceited
  • Tedious

• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • God
  • May
  • Marriage

• I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Humanity
  • Calling
  • Satisfying