"Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology."

-- Regis Debray

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“Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.”

Source : Enrico Caruso, Andrew Farkas (1997). “Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.”
“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”
“If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.”
“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
“I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.”
“I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything. Very often I take cabs to travel during the course of the day because I enjoy talking to cabbies from different parts of India.”
“America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.”

Source : "The more intelligence I read, the more conservative I become" by George Brandis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2014.

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