Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.
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I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
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Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
