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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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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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.
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If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.
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What I really want is an Oscar.
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In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
