Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.
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All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
