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You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

Andris Nelsons

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • May
  • Home

• It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Very
  • Become

• I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • High
  • Small
  • Films

• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • Question
  • Church

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• Hey guys, there isn't gonna be a Plan B. You called me in to bring the thunder and that's what I'm gonna do.

  

  Jack Black

• Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • English

• Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Father
  • Inspiration
  • Films

• The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Future

• How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • Animal

• The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Work
  • Important
  • Done

• Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • World
  • Experience
  • Power

• Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

  

  George W. Jenkins
  • Making
  • Profit
  • Right Thing

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• I think people really want to see the real because the world is portrayed at such a low level that if you come out with a real wholesome show, people don't want to see that anymore.

  

  Fred Hammond
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Action

• You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

  

  Andris Nelsons