Renata Tebaldi Quotes

#1. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi

#2. The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Steve Jobs

#3. I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

Renata Tebaldi

#4. I know America is the country that loved me most.

Renata Tebaldi

#5. President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Tom Daschle

#6. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Renee Fleming

#7. I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Anthony Weiner

#8. I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Renata Tebaldi

#9. I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

Rick Riordan

#10. It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Mark Twain

#11. Wasing the where of needing, she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Nancy Chodorow

#13. You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Jane Austen

#14. Jesus died to redeem you," she said.
"I never ast him," he muttered.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up

Scooter Braun

#16. Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm ... she had dimples of iron.

Rudolf Bing

#17. We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

Michele Bachmann

#18. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

Renata Tebaldi

#19. My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Renata Tebaldi

#20. A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo ...

Russell Brand