Paul Provenza Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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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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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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If Paul Ryan wants to talk about the soul of America, I ask him to look into his own soul. Because if he is saying we have no soul, he certainly has a hole in his. He needs to understand that every single person in this country has a right to expect that their government will take care of them in their greatest need.
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I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.
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For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
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I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
