Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
