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The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Jeff MacNelly

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Audit Ended Language Me Opera Reminds Tax Tragedy Understand

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Jeff MacNelly
American - Cartoonist
September 17, 1947 - June 8, 2000

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Erica Jong

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Edward Victor Appleton

You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.

Charlie Munger

You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.

Paul Manafort

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

Tim Kaine

Mr. Trump's position has been clear from the beginning: He's under audit. When the audit is completed, he'll release his returns.

Paul Manafort

Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes. It's important to control and reclaim the language here.

Rush Limbaugh

When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

Donald Trump

I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.

Donald Trump

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

Mordechai Vanunu

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

Sasha Velour

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.

Terry Teachout

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

Andrea Bocelli

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

Bob Barr

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