Carlo Collodi Quotes
Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
