Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
