Dante Alighieri Quotes

La tua benignità non pur soccorrea chi domanda, ma molte fïateliberamente al dimandar precorre.

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Democrat

• It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Just
  • Technical

• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Door
  • Down
  • Hollywood

• At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Time
  • Job
  • Thought

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Society
  • Free

• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Heart
  • American

• I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • First
  • Television

• You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Car
  • Green
  • Transportation

• We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • End
  • Battle
  • Texas

• Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • End

• I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

  

  Brent Weeks
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Humanity

• One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Perfect

• I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• So when you say it's gonna happen now.Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone!

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Long
  • Hope

• She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Bands
  • Skinny
  • Temples

• La tua benignità non pur soccorrea chi domanda, ma molte fïateliberamente al dimandar precorre.

  

  Dante Alighieri