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Robert Breault

(1963) Singer

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Robert Breault reminds us that finding connection often means stepping out of quiet rooms into bustling places, and that doubling effort can change the odds. He also says that true belief is a practiced faith, not certainty, and that art and life benefit from restraint—less is more. Finally, he sees a garden as a two‑way teacher, shaping both plant and gardener.

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Robert Breault is a singer.

Quick Facts About Robert Breault

Born: January 1, 1963
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Residential street-dirt accumulation rates and chemical composition, and removal efficiencies by mechanical- and vacuum-type sweepers, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 2003-04

About Robert Breault

He was born in Michigan and earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in 1985, later receiving a distinguished alumni award. He also earned a master’s (1987) and a doctorate (1991) in voice from the University of Michigan, studying with Lorna Haywood. He spent two years in the San Francisco Merola Opera Program and interned with Michigan Opera Theatre. At the University of Utah School of Music he is the director of opera.

Quotes by Robert Breault

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

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If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

Can't forgive

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To accept reality is only to encourage it.

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Be happy, and a reason will come along.

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We find things where we look for them.

Funny

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A watched child never learns.

Child

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What happens if I do nothing?

Funny

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God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

Funny

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What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Ancestor

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Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

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Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

Age

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Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Charity

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It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Age

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Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

Footnote

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One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Applause

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Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't…

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It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed…

Calm

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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet…

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Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

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Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Bears

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No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a…

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After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

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The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

Animal

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I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences…

Differences

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In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound…

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If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment,…

Communication

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Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract…

Abstract

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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact…

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Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body…

Art

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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car…

Absence

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Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and…

Achievement

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Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de…

Antioch

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There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The…

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Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom?…

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When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's…

Caves

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Am I keeping my promises?

Inspirational

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To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

Lying

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What are memories but dreams of a better past.

Dream

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The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

Gift

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Robert Breault by topic

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