Donna Leon Quotes
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.
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And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
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As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.
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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
