Quotable quotes

[Alistair]

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I attended a revival of [Zeffirelli's] production of Aîda at La Scala four or so years ago. It truly was a hot mess.

And he was proud of how much it cost taxpayers (though he didn't put it like that).

Genuine gold dust all over that enormous sphinx head ...

Did you at least get to see Roberto Bolle dance wearing almost nothing?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

My father got dementia and forgot that he was an asshole.

-- David Sedaris

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

^ by way of explanation ^

Part of the change was that he’d always just watched Fox News and conservative talk shows, bathing in that day and night. But the television was complicated in his assisted living facility so he was without it, and, for the first time, he wasn’t filled with rage. The question was: did he change? Or is that who he really was, and it was smothered in layers of rage and frustration that peeled away at the end?

-- David Sedaris

 

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[Latimer]

And he was proud of how much it cost taxpayers (though he didn't put it like that).

Genuine gold dust all over that enormous sphinx head ...

Did you at least get to see Roberto Bolle dance wearing almost nothing?

No, but I did see Bollé dance half-clothed in "Apollo" at the Nureyev Gala at La Scala in 2018 and nearly naked a few years earlier in his star vehicle "Bollé and Friends" in Los Angeles. Best of all was his "Romeo" with ABT, which I also saw in Los Angeles. His acting in that production was expressive enough to be worthy of Shakespeare. Zakharova was on the playbill at the La Scala gala, and I was hoping to see them together--having marvelled at their La Scala "Swan Lake" on video--but she danced the last act of "The Sleeping Beauty" with Germain Louvet, and Bollé appeared only in "Apollo", a disappointment. I'm not a big Balanchine fan.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Roberto Bolle is one beautiful man.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

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[Harke the Boeotarch]

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We did it ourselves, 'cause we were bored.

 

[Alistair]

 

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[Alistair]

I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am - the special ones, the wise ones, sometimes just the ones who got there first.

Neil Gaiman

 

[Rand]

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

 

[Alistair]

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Peter Hitchens

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Peter Hitchens

That doesn't quite hold true for those of us discussing chemtrails and the reptilian agenda.

 

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