"This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve?"

-- Luisa Tetrazzini

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“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.”
“There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.”
“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”
“No scene is ever about the words being spoken.”
“It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.234, Macmillan
“It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.”
“And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise.”

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