Mario Monti Quotes
I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
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I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
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Somatic therapies can help patients to relocate themselves in the present by experiencing that it is safe to move.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.
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I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
