"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."

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Placido Domingo

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“President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.”
“I'm very objective about what I want to have happen to my protagonists and where that has to come from. On one hand, it does help me that I had a mother who might have taken the last dollar and bought a pack of cigarettes or something, but I also had a mother who exposed me to art, music, other religions, different foods. My mother was very adventurous in her own way, so she fed the part of me that was going to grow up to be a writer. But there's always, too, the opposite response that helps me to create.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.”

Source : Interview with James Cramer at Kemper Insurance Open in Potomac, Maryland, www.asapsports.com. June 3, 2000.
“While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.”
“I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.”
“For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.”

Source : "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.
“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.”
“Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of society.....Indeed, the strength and safety of any organization-including the family-lie in the integrity of its members. Without personal integrity, there can be no confidence. Without confidence, there can be no prospect of permanent success.”

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