I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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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 I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
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EMIR KUSTURICA It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it...
SAMUEL BARNETT I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the Eng...
JOHN CORNYN Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't thi...
TEMPLE GRANDIN I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.
KEN CUCCINELLI I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an acce...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera...
OZWALD BOATENG I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
JOEY MCINTYRE It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what...
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HEATH LEDGER What we don't know can't hurt us.
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LYDIA DAVIS I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someon...
JOE NAMATH What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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STANLEY ELKIN I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
TAMSIN EGERTON I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
EMMY ROSSUM Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
SATCHEL PAIGE I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.
CYRILLE AIMEE I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
CAM GIGANDET Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religi...
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ROY AYERS There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. W...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS [Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often gi...
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
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YAEL NAIM I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
MARK TWAIN Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
DEBBIE HARRY I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making some...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore becaus...
BELLA THORNE I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a websit...
NEKO CASE Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that cre...
KEN ROBINSON I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hun...
RUTGER HAUER The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't real...
BRITTANY DANIEL I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
PETE WATERMAN People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'...
TERI GARR Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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TONY JUDT People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, bu...
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STEWART LEE I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor c...
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IRVING KIRSCH What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a...
ALAN ARKIN Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can d...
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ANDREW VACHSS I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, ...
HULK HOGAN I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the...
SPIKE JONZE I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
SAINA NEHWAL I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Ta...
JAMES AVERY I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
KENNETH H. COOPER Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can&...
DANIEL ALARCON I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alco...
GARY JOHNSON You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying t...
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FETTY WAP I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things muc...
B. D. WONG It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON