Diego Della Valle Quotes
Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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We've always believed in our music.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
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We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.
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I believe the future of our country can be really great.
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If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.
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Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.
