Pierfrancesco Favino Quotes
You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
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We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.
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You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.
