- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
- Classics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Tamil audiences, the Telugus, too, are welcoming of novelty. The fact that 'Arjun Reddy,' which had no regular songs, became such a big hit, says it all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a youngster, I and people like us, who are educated and progressive-minded, did not take interest in politics. But then I realised that half of the parliament is being run by politicians with criminal records.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Twitter feed is polluted with vitriolic personal abuse, much of it gendered. Like almost all female Members of Parliament, I have both seen and experienced inappropriate and sexist behaviour.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to pilot a government-led scheme, alongside Help to Buy, to offer a loan to young people on a reasonable income to be able to pay the deposit on a new home and then swap their high rents for a mortgage and actually have a place of their own.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020