Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about art, magic
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.Quote by Maria Callas about end, home, house, imagination, life
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.Quote by Bill Gates about technology, rules, affair
The task of organizing and operating a huge and complex educational machinery has left us scant leisure for calm reflection.Quote by Irving Babbitt
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.Quote by John Abizaid about security, concentration, force
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we...Quote by John Abizaid about defeat, heads, nothing
So the skills required of our translators, interrogators, and human intelligence operators in Iraq are enormously demanding.Quote by John Abizaid about intelligence, human imperfections
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.Quote by John Abizaid about force, security
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.Quote by John Abizaid
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.Quote by John Abizaid
I'd have tears running from my eyes listening to the power of these operatic pieces, and the voices that committed themselves to being an instrument for the composers who created them.Quote by Michael Bolton about tears, eyes, power, being
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.Quote by Taylor Caldwell about medicine
And then, it is not an office job: I build my production teams, I follow the beginning of the rehearsals, the dress rehearsal, the premiere, which leaves me time to go and attend other opera performances, to find new singers for my future...Quote by Placido Domingo about career, beginning, future, time
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.Quote by Placido Domingo about voice
But, when you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.Quote by Placido Domingo
I would like the public to follow, and not to go to the opera simply because they are attracted to the same big names.Quote by Placido Domingo about public
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.Quote by Placido Domingo about money
There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.Quote by Placido Domingo about nation, people