Marilyn Horne Quotes

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Marilyn Horne

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• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Music
  • Interior

• It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Growing
  • Politics
  • Identity

• When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Hope
  • Man
  • Faith

• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Go
  • Moving On

• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Need

• If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • She
  • Study
  • Problems

• Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • Sophisticated

• When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • You
  • Cheer

• I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• We are pleased with the state of predictions and we touched on matters of increasing bilateral trade in both countries Malaysia and Maldives, as well as, looked at opportunities for Malaysian companies to continue participating in the development of Maldives.

  

  Najib Razak

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Reality

• Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Understanding

• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

  Edward Abbey

• The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Question

• I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Soul

• We didn't join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube.

  

  Burnie Burns

• Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Rest
  • Difficulties
  • Conquered

• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Ambition
  • Sing

• I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

  

  Marilyn Horne