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When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But it was enormously successful and I proved that there was an audience ready to discover it. I like to present a project which has both a commercial and a cultural element. I try to combine them.


Cecilia Bartoli

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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG We're going to try and bring it back to what it looked like in the '90s, when I was there.
BILL SHANAHAN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda.
SIMON MASHALLA It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int...
MAE WHITMAN We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA I get so sad that sad gets to be.
So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so...
TEGAN QUIN There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers....
RAIN You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co...
THEO ENGELA She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t...
MARGARET MCMULLAN You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing to...
ANGIE MARTINEZ When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
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When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as th...
CECILIA BARTOLI Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
CECILIA BARTOLI Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
CECILIA BARTOLI "The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
CECILIA BARTOLI The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to d...
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make sing...
CECILIA BARTOLI Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
CECILIA BARTOLI I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
CECILIA BARTOLI I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f...
CECILIA BARTOLI When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you hav...
CECILIA BARTOLI I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
CECILIA BARTOLI Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, unt...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
CECILIA BARTOLI I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
CECILIA BARTOLI The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the mo...
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the...
CECILIA BARTOLI German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
CECILIA BARTOLI We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.
CECILIA BARTOLI So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a ...
MARION BARTOLI We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
CECILIA ZALKIND On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND We certainly support his nomination. I think he's a great choice.
CECILIA ZALKIND While these southern counties do have some small cities, a lot of the poverty that infects child wel...
CECILIA ZALKIND It's frustrating to know we have this incredible opportunity for kids [that] we're already beginning...
CECILIA ZALKIND Over half a million children live in families that struggle to pay the rent and put food on the tabl...
CECILIA ZALKIND This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
CECILIA ZALKIND I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizi...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm so proud of him it's unbelievable.
CECILIA RODHE This is a dream come true for him. We're so proud.
CECILIA RODHE I wouldn't miss it for the world.
CECILIA RODHE When you are in a team situation, it's never comfortable. Everybody has to put energy in what's happ...
CECILIA RODHE It's a wonderful decision. I applaud all of them.
CECILIA RODHE He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte...
CECILIA RODHE I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned.
CECILIA MUNOZ It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week.
CECILIA MUNOZ The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
CECILIA MUNOZ Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public ...
CECILIA MUNOZ We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.
CECILIA MUNOZ That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
CECILIA MUNOZ Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conf...
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million [undocumented immigrants] living and working in the United States. This bill ul...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here...
CECILIA MUNOZ They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.
CECILIA JOHNSON Our senior class thought this was going to go away. Our juniors now know. They are getting very conc...
CECILIA JOHNSON The principals are in full support of this.
CECILIA JOHNSON We (she and her husband) made the commitment to join Our Lady Queen of Peace and help the Brazilian ...
CECILIA JOHNSON What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
CECILIA JOHNSON It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classro...
CECILIA JOHNSON We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curric...
CECILIA JOHNSON It's a big deal. If you're living with the pain and numbness, it's a big deal.
CECILIA FARLEY I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a sma...
CECILIA FARLEY I went to a doctor and had it diagnosed but then thought, I can't do it. I'd have to be off two week...
CECILIA FARLEY These three fingers would go numb. It would go into the thumb. Intense. Intense pain. Right here to ...
CECILIA FARLEY Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I starte...
CECILIA CARROLL I finally went home to my country three years ago. There is so much poverty there and so many kids n...
CECILIA CARROLL She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
CECILIA CARROLL It's for the kids. It's like you are giving a new life to a child.
CECILIA CARROLL I would love if she could get donations to maybe go to Disney World or something before she leaves, ...
CECILIA CARROLL A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medi...
CECILIA CARROLL The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go wit...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all ...
CECILIA MUNOZ She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement.
CECILIA MRUK We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of p...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordin...
CECILIA MUNOZ And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single sec...
CECILIA VINESSE We will not accept enforcement-only approaches.
CECILIA MUNOZ If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for ...
CECILIA MUNOZ She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family.
CECILIA MRUK If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
CECILIA MUNOZ Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my kn...
CECILIA LLOMPART We don't want the Olympic Games becoming, let's say, a Formula-One event where sponsors are on cars,...
CECILIA GANDINI She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
CECILIA MRUK Jessica guffawed. “Well, almost every need. It will be every need when we walk in the door and the...
CECILIA AUBREY I think, ultimately, this committee can report out a bill.
CECILIA MUNOZ If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ou...
CECILIA MUNOZ The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.
CECILIA MUNOZ We couldn't possibly support a proposal that says you can work here, but you can never be apart of o...
CECILIA MUNOZ It doesn't really deal with why people are migrating or why our economy is so dependent on their lab...
CECILIA MUNOZ And I was sent to the left.
CECILIA ETKIN My memories. I still have nightmares, just screamed in my dream. About a year ago, I had a dream, th...
CECILIA ETKIN No I didn't. My parents were killed.
CECILIA ETKIN Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I...
CECILIA RANDELL Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
CECILIA LONDON Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH I just love to take pictures.
CECILIA ROTH But it always came back to anger.
CECILIA GRAY It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them...
CECILIA VINESSE Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her ...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wa...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON The Internet is amazing.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON