#pera

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#coherence #countries #developing #focus #increase

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #father #fell #felt #i

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#about #back #degree #desperate #far

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i #know #operatic #started #violence

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #confirms #conscious #constructively #contrary

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#deal #destiny #even #images #moods

A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -" He hung up. He sat with his mouth twitching. On second thought he redialed that number. "When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#humor #loneliness #home

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#care #first #first thing #how #last

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#cooperation #country #depend #europe #everyone

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate