It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. - Klaus Nomi

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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

Klaus Nomi

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

Germany, Opera, Sing, Sopranos

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I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.

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I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

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I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

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I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

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Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

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I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

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My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

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