Dante Alighieri Quotes
A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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To go back means defeat.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
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Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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'In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.'-Learning To Sing, Page 240
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Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
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You remain humble, work hard, and the rest falls into place.
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The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.
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Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.
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A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
