Leontyne Price Quotes

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

Leontyne Price

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Model
  • inspirational

• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Think
  • Light

• I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Together
  • Government

• The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Monsters
  • Brutal
  • Despicable

• I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Angry
  • Fan Base

• People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • People
  • Why
  • Art

• The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs

• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • People
  • Different
  • Voice