Ignazio Silone Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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The fast-growing hospitality industry is very much in need of skilled workers. Thousands of workers will benefit from the outreach, English literacy and occupational skills.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
