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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I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
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You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.
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Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
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Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.
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L'uso d'i mortali è come frondain ramo, che sen va e altra vene.
