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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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"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." »Bill Cosby
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"soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run." »Mark Twain
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"Bed is the poor man's opera." »Italian Proverb
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"How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers." »Gioacchino Rosini
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"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel." »Mark Twain
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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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"The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings." »Dan Cook
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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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"opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." »Ed Gardner
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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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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance." »Victor Borge
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." »Clive Staples Lewis
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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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"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values." »Willa Sibert Cather
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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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