"I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book."

-- Donna Leon

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“I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.”
“I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.”
“Maybe Iâ€™m old, but to me, â€˜going outâ€™ means going out to dinner. Itâ€™s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.”
“It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.”
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
“I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.”
“There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'”
“The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.”

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