"I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre."

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Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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“Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.”
“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.”

Source : Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text
“Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.”
“We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.”
“Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.”
“Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.”
“Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer because they can influence rulemaking and rule application in their favor; on the other hand, it also leads to instability. This is so because the relatively few organizations capable of influencing supranational rulemaking through the lobbying of major governments have diverse interests. This will, in some cases, lead to compromises. But it will also lead to spheres of influence.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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