Mario Monti Quotes

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • You
  • Speed

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Support
  • Beauty

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Sad
  • About
  • Turning

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Party
  • Day
  • Years

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Fact

• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Test

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

  

  David Icke
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Eyes

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• You are watching what greatness is all about.

  

  Brent Musburger
  • Greatness

• The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • People
  • Men
  • Education

• I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

  

  Kathy Acker

• So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

  

  Mario Monti
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  • Democracy
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