Maria Callas Quotes

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

Maria Callas

• Music
• Magnificent
• Shabby way

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• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

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• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

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• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
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• It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.

  

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• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

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• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

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• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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  • Team

• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

  

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• Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
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  • Trying

• The majority of my audience has always been women.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
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• If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.

  

  Chance The Rapper
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• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
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• Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Man

• All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• Mr. Darwin labours to show, and with no small success, that all true classification in zoology and botany is, in fact, genealogical, and that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, while they often imagined that they were looking for some unknown plan of creation.

  

  Charles Lyell
  • True
  • Success
  • Small

• To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Music
  • Magnificent
  • Shabby way