Primo Levi Quotes
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
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When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.
