#ak

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#concerts #course #everyone #fee #good

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#beneficial #cafe #children #come #community

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#drake #eddie #edgy #foolish #funny

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#heard #make #peace #silence #subject

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Randall Terry

#any #churches #commandments #congregation #country

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain. ↗

— Tertullian

#feeling #injure #lies #pain #pleasure

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cannot #days #i #longer #make

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country