"The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Thomas Hampson

#Song Quotes #Eye Quotes #Language Quotes

“I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.”
“The annexation of Crimea did undermine Ukraine to some extent, but less than it did Russia; this is a case in which the victim wins. Ukraine got rid of a region that requires massive subsidies and received international sympathy; meanwhile, Russia bit off this chunk it can't chew.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.”
“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”

Source : David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House
“John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications
“When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.”

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