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'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.
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There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
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I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
