Dante Alighieri Quotes
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.
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I'm perpetually lonely.
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I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
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Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.
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I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly 'veneration of wealth' are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
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It's quantity, not quality.
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L'uso d'i mortali è come frondain ramo, che sen va e altra vene.
