#opera

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#ballistic #bullets #came #commission #country

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#audition #became #dad #extra #i

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#dvd #i #never #only #opera

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#operas #pieces #theatre #very #works

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#hard #oil #operating #refinery #use

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity