Carlo Collodi Quotes
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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You can stroke people with words.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
