Ignazio Silone Quotes
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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My door is open.
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'Welcome to the GWOJ.' 'GWOJ?' 'Global War on Jones.'
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To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
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A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.
