"I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome."

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Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

Cecilia Bartoli

#School Quotes #Rome Quotes

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador
“The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.”
“My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.”
“The Truth, believed, is a lie.”
“I have always wanted to be liked and respected.”

Source : O. J. Simpson, Pete Axthelm (1970). “O. J.: the education of a rich rookie”
“There is no subsitute for hard work.”
“The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”
“One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.”

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