Mario Monti Quotes
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
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Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
