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 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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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.