Mario Monti Quotes
There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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I'm not fashionable.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
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There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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I am a supporter of the state of Israel.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
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I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.
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When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
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Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.
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I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
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There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
