#ate

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#antiquated #art #art form #attract #created

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations. ↗

— Peter Berg

#became #being #boxing #characters #cop

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #even #inaction #iron #loses

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. ↗

— Peter Berg

#admiration #attention #believe #enough #follow

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience. ↗

— Peter Berg

#after #articulate #brown #caught #chris

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#bread #daughter #greatest #greatest thing #guess

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#california #course #graduate #i #i am

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #father #had #his #know

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. ↗

— John Berger

#around #cite #cruelty #evil #human