Mario Monti Quotes
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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That was also my nickname in high school.
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Father, fatherWe don't need to escalate.You see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
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I say to those opposite: we intend to prevail in this battle of ideas, on the ground, right through to the next election. We intend to prevail.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
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In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
