Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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I don't watch much television.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
