#or

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#analyses #best #communist #consider #failure

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day. ↗

— James Callaghan

#break #day #disagree #encourage #even

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. ↗

— Maria Callas

#dear #i #money #need #work

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#divorced #else #enjoy #everyone #getting

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. ↗

— Maria Callas

#down #elevator #going #i #like

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#because #doing #down #figure #lazy

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#color #difference #expect #go #hear

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#forgotten #good #good lord #i #lord

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ↗

— John Calvin

#conscience #hell #living #soul #torture