Compelling Quote by David Rubenstein Download Open image “For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.” — David Rubenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compelling Opera
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,'… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a… — Lord Harewood Copy Share Image
I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go,… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go,… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Do not always say no. If satisfied with the seat in place and not reckless, the next 20 years you will still sit there alone — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time,… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery? — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life… — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was… — Karen Hinton Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
