Anna Netrebko Quotes

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Anna Netrebko

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• I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Health
  • Disappointed
  • Wars

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Think
  • Me
  • Person

• I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Player

• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  

  Karen O
  • Anymore
  • Self-destructive

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• Oh, it was just a movie that should have never been made. I'm horrible in it. I look at myself in it and think, 'Oh, you stiff. Go die!' I can't even look at it. The only thing I can say about it was that it brought me to Texas.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Movie
  • Die
  • Texas

• There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • House
  • Wise

• Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Knowledge

• Hands promiscuously applied,Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.

  

  Lord Byron

• The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Done
  • Power

• That little, small voice in your mind and in your heart that makes you curious about being vegan is something you should listen to, because that’s the sound of your conscience making you be compassionate.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Small

• A star needs all the rest she can get.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Rest
  • Star

• It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • Jesus
  • Greek

• I love that feeling, that feeling of team.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Feeling
  • Team

• Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People

• When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.

  

  Stephen McCauley
  • Work
  • Theater
  • Reaction

• When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

  

  Dee Bradley Baker
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Makeup

• Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Art
  • Death
  • Fighting

• When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Mean

• The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Attractive

• Lots of opera singers are just boring.

  

  Anna Netrebko