Primo Levi Quotes
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
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It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps even her ex? Such spontaneous acts really only worked with men left over from earlier in your life.
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
