Opera Quotes - Page 30

• Lots of opera singers are just boring.

  Anna Netrebko

  Singers, Boring, Opera Singers

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• We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

  Maureen Dowd

  Glasses, People, Noses

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• I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

  Benjamin Britten

  Musical

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• The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

  Ben Elton

  Race, Lasts, Fluffy

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• Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Guilt, Criminals

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