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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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
