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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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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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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Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
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You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
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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.
