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If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

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If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

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Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Placido Domingo
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It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Placido Domingo
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I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.

Colman Domingo
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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Domingos Monteiro
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I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.

Linda Ronstadt
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In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean crossing from Africa, a category five when she finally came ashore at San Juan before moving on to Santo Domingo and then Cuba and Florida. But now she's grown very old, as her kind measures age, and these are her death throes. So she holds tightly to this night, hanging on with the desperate fury of any dying thing, any dying thing that might once have thought itself invincible.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A historian who finds excuses for such conduct by references to the supposed spirit of the times, or by omission, or by silence, shows thereby that his account of events is not to be trusted.

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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