#pera

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#coldness #desperate #i #me #people

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#follows #i #long #myself #opera

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#concert #i #let us #money #more

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#because #been #communal #cooperative #effective

It is the fate of operating systems to become free. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#fate #free #operating #operating systems #systems

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#i #listen #operas #soap #soap operas

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#avoid #chance #continue #cooperation #full

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#earth #like #manual #operating #spaceship

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. ↗

— Titus Livius

#cases #counsels #desperate #difficult #safest