Pietro Aretino Quotes

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Pietro Aretino

King

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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

Pardis Sabeti
- Writing
- Way
- Like
You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

Walter Becker China Crisis
- Good
- Same
- Impact
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

Walt Mossberg
- Time
- Guy
- House
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Kate Moss
- People
- Me
- Stop
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

Malala Yousafzai
- Afraid
- Dragons
- Ghosts
People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- People
- World
- Great