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"At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time." »Woody Allen
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"There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl." »Joan Rivers
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"Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show." »Buddy Hackett
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"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door?" »Jerry Scott, Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers
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"Bed is the poor man's opera." »Italian Proverb
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"... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana
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"How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers." »Gioacchino Rosini
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"Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess
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"The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings." »Dan Cook
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it." »Hannah More, 1775
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"opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one." »Hannah Moore
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"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." »W. H. Auden
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"I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes I bet you can really see it in those genitals." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." »Ed Gardner
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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh." »Katharine Hepburn
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"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance." »Victor Borge
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"Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show." »Buddy Hackett
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." »Sir Edward Appleton
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"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera." »Israel Zangwill
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"It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind." »Barbara Hall
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"He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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