"Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate."

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Sarah Caldwell

#Successful Quotes #People Quotes #Opera Quotes

“Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.”
“[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.”
“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.”
“I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.”
“Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.”

Source : Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226
“I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a novel that would appear to want to tell people what to think about the immigration debate, and I would never write a novel whose sole ambition was to give a "positive" view of immigrants. I'm for open borders, by the way - down with the nation state!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah, Steven M. Tipton (2006). “The Robert Bellah Reader”, p.24, Duke University Press
“The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.”

Source : "Homes of the Stars". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 2004.

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