Dario Fo Quotes
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
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I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
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Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
