"When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what exactly they're cheering about. And I even see myself as an artist who also knows how to enjoy other people's performances."

-- Thomas Quasthoff

#Cheer Quotes #Artist Quotes #People Quotes

“Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.”
“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”
“You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.”
“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso
“Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.”

Source : "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.
“I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.”
“Something is swelling up among our athletes. Many of them are frustrated, everywhere in the world, and they are looking for a way out. Either they start doping themselves, or they give up the sport. Or else they stand up and demand that those who have the power to should change the system.”
“A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.”

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