"Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions."

-- Sarah Caldwell

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“The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.”
“Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.”
“The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.”
“When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.”
“The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.”
“Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.”
“Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.”
“It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.”

Source : "Dead philosophers society: an interview with simon critchley". Interview with Andrew Gallix, www.3ammagazine.com. February 15, 2009.

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